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Prying vs Paying - What's the difference?

prying | paying |

As verbs the difference between prying and paying

is that prying is while paying is .

As nouns the difference between prying and paying

is that prying is the act of one who pries while paying is payment.

prying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pries.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 280)
    • That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.

    paying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • payment
  • * Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy
    • It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.