pay

/peɪ/

US pronunciation

American sound/peɪ/

pay

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

US voice -> pay

Myanmar meaning

(n) လုပ်ခလစာ (v) ငွေပေး

Full entry

pay /peÇ/ n [U]

လစာ စသည့် ပုံမှန်လုပ်ခ။ a pay rise/award/increase ❍ a 6.5% pay offer ❍ holiday/redundancy pay ❍ pay negotiations/bargaining ❍ He doesn't like the job,but the pay is good. ❍ INCOME See also SICK-PAY
v (pt,pp paid /peÇd/)
၁။ (က) ~ (sb ) (for sth); ~ sth (to sb) (for sth) (လုပ်ခ၊ ပစ္စည်း၊ ဝန်ဆောင်မှု စသည်အတွက်) ငွေပေးသည်၊ ငွေရှင်းသည်၊ ငွေသွင်းသည်၊ ပေးသည်။ They tried to leave the restaurant without paying (for their meal). ❍ Are you paying in cash or by cheque? ❍ Her parents paid for her to go (ie paid the cost of her travel) to America. ❍ Have you paid the milkman this week? ❍ How much did you pay for your car? pay sb by the hour/by the job ❍ Have you paid that money to the bank yet? ❍ You haven't paid me the money you owe me. ❍ My firm pays well (ie pays high wages). ❍ You're not paid to sit around doing nothing!
(ခ) ~ sth (to sb) (ပေးရန်၊ ဆပ်ရန် ရှိသည်ကို) ပေးသွင်းသည်၊ ပေးသည်။ pay rent ❍ pay a bill/debt/fine ❍ He paid the kidnappers a ransom of £ 50 000 for his son. ❍ Membership fees should be paid to the club secretary.
၂။ (က) (စီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်း စသည်) အကျိုး ရှိသည်၊ မြတ်သည်။ It's difficult to make farming pay. (ခ) အကျိုးပေးသည်။ အကျိုးခံစားရသည်။ အကျိုးရှိ သည်။ Crime doesn't pay. ရာဇဝတ်မှု အကျိုးမပြု။ ❍ It pays to be honest with the taxman. ❍ It would pay (you) to use an accountant.
၃။ ~ (for sth) ဒုက္ခရောက် စေသည်။ ပေးဆပ်သည်။ I'll make him pay (for those remarks). ❍ Many paid with their lives.
၄။ (ဂရု) စိုက် သည်၊ (အလေး) ထားသည်၊ (ချီးမွမ်းစကား) ဆိုသည်၊ (အလည်) လာသည်၊ (စသည်ဖြင့် တွဲသုံးသည့်နာမ်နှင့် လိုက်ဖက်သော ကြိယာအဖြစ်)။ Some of you weren't paying attention (to what I said). ❍ She paid no heed to (ie took no notice of) our warning. ❍ He paid me the compliment of saying he admired my work. ❍ I promised to pay them a visit.
❏ he who pays the piper calls the tune [IDM ] (saying ) ငွေကုန်ခံသူက ပြောရေးဆိုခွင့်ရှိသည်။
❏ in the pay of sb/sth [IDM ] (usu derog ) …၏ ငွေဝယ်ကျွန်။ a spy in the pay of the enemy.
❏ payable /'peÇǝbl/ adj (က) ပေးရန်။ No import duty is payable. (ခ) ပေးချေနိုင်သော။ The price is payable in instalments.
❏ pay-as-you-earn n [U] (Brit ) (abbr PAYE ) ဝင်ငွေခွန်ကို သက်ဆိုင်ရာလစာ၊ လုပ်ခမှ ဖြတ်ယူသော စနစ်။
❏ pay sb back (for sth) [PHRV ] ကလဲ့စားချေသည်။ လက်စားချေသည်။ လက်တုံ့ပြန်သည်။ I'll pay him back for the trick he played on me.
❏ pay sb back (sth); pay sth back [PHRV ] ချေးငွေကို ပြန်ဆပ်သည်။ Have you paid back the money you owe yet? ❍ I'll pay you back next week.
❏ pay-bed n (Brit ) ပြင်ပဆရာဝန်၏ လူနာအဖြစ် ပြည်သူ့ ဆေးရုံတက်ရာ၌ အခပေးရသော ခုတင်။
❏ pay-claim n (Brit ) (အလုပ်သမား သမဂ္ဂများက မိမိတို့ အဖွဲ့ဝင်များအတွက်) လစာတိုးမြှင့်ပေးရန် တောင်းဆိုချက်။
❏ pay court to sb [IDM ] ခယသည်။ leaders paying court to the new president.
❏ pay-day n လစာထုတ်ရက်။ (ရက်သတ္တအလိုက် လုပ်ခထုတ် ပေးခြင်းဖြစ်က) လုပ်ခထုတ်ရက်။
❏ pay dividends [IDM ]အကျိုးများစေသည်။ A cautious approach will pay dividends.
❏ payee /peÇ'i:/ n ငွေလက်ခံသူ။
❏ payer n ငွေပေးသူ။ ငွေပေးရသူ။
❏ paying guest n အိမ်တစ်အိမ်တွင် အခန်းခ၊ ထမင်းလခ ပေး၍ နေထိုင်သူ။
❏ pay sth in; pay sth into sth [PHRV ] ဘဏ်တွင် ငွေသွင်းသည်။ pay a cheque into one's account.
❏ pay off [PHRV ] (infml ) (စွန့်စားမှုတစ်ရပ်) အောင်မြင်သည်။ The gamble paid off.
❏ pay-off n (infml )
၁။ လာဘ်ထိုးခြင်း။ a secret pay-off.
၂။ ကောင်းကျိုး၊ ဆိုးကျိုးရလဒ်။ We have invested in new equipment and are now seeing the pay-off in school science classes.
❏ pay sb off [PHRV ]
၁။ လုပ်ခရှင်းပြီး အလုပ်ရပ်စဲ လိုက် သည်။ pay off the crew of a ship.
၂။ (infml ) လာဘ်ထိုးသည်။
❏ pay sth off [PHRV ] အကြွေးစာရင်းရှင်းလိုက်သည်။ pay off one's debts/a loan/a mortgage.
❏ pay sth out [PHRV ]
၁။ ငွေအတော်များများ ပေးရသည်။ I had to pay out £ 400 to get my car repaired! ❍ We're paying out $800 a month on our mortgage. See also PAYOUT
၂။ (ကြိုးကို) လက်ဖြင့် အလိုက်သင့်လျှော့ပေးသည်။
❏ pay-packet (Brit ) (also wage-packet ) n လခ၊ လုပ်ခငွေ စာအိတ်။
❏ pay the penalty (for sth/doing sth) [IDM ] ဒဏ်ခတ် ခြင်း ခံရသည်။ The England team are paying the penalty for lack of match practice.
❏ pay-phone n (အကြွေထည့်၍ခေါ်ရသော) အများသုံး တယ်လီဖုန်း။
❏ pay a/the price (for sth) [IDM ] အရင်းအနှီး ပေးရသည်။ မတန်တဆ အဆုံးရှုံးခံရသည်။ Our troops recaptured the city,but they paid a heavy price (ie many were killed).
❏ pay one's respects (to sb) [IDM ] (fml ) (သွားရောက်) ဂါရဝပြုသည်။ I intend to call on your mother and pay my respects. ❍ Thousands came to pay their last respects to the murdered policeman (eg by attending his funeral).
❏ pay through the nose (for sth) [IDM ] (infml ) မတန်တဆပေးရသည်။ You'll pay through the nose for a house in that area.
❏ pay up [PHRV ] အကျေအလည် ပေးချေသည်။ I'll take you to court unless you pay up immediately.
❏ pay one's/its way [IDM ] ကာမိသည်။ The freight business must pay its own way without subsidies.
❏ put paid to sth [IDM ] (infml ) ဇာတ်သိမ်းသွားသည်။ The argument she had with her manager has probably put paid to any hopes of promotion.
❏ there will be/was the devil/hell to pay [IDM ] (infml ) မိုးမီးလောင်တော့သည်။ ဒုက္ခလှလှတွေ့သည်။ There was hell to pay when we got home that night.

More examples

[pay for] : Let me pay for dinner.
[pay someone for something] : Can I pay you for this?
[pay by] : Will you be paying by cash, cheque, or credit card?
[pay with] : I’d like to pay with my card.
[pay in dollars/pounds etc] : Can I pay in dollars?
[pay (in) cash] : There’s a reduction if you pay cash.
[pay the bill] : Can I pay the bill, please?
[pay someone for something] : We still haven’t paid them for the repairs to the roof.
[pay someone to do something] : We had to pay them over £100 to sort it out.
[pay to have/get something done] : Now I’ll have to pay to get the car fixed.
We’ll probably pay more in tax this year.
Did you pay the gas bill?
Some of the workers haven’t been paid for weeks.
She was in a job paying over £60, 000 a year.
My new job pays well.
We have a lot of hard work ahead if we’re going to make the business pay.
[it pays to do something] : It pays to cover the pool to keep out falling leaves.
[it pays someone to do something] : It would pay you to get it properly checked.
[crime doesn’t pay] : The message you get from the film is simple: crime doesn’t pay.
It was an outrage, and somebody was going to pay.
[pay for] : They had made him look like a fool and now they were going to pay for it.
[pay dearly for something] : We may pay dearly for our arrogance.
[make someone pay (for something)] : She had ruined his life and now he was going to make her pay.
Employees often use the phrase "You get what you pay for" to justify their mistreatment of customers.

Synonyms

disburse, reimburse, shell out, compensate, forfeit, recompense, give, adjust, allowance, answer, atone, avenge oneself, bacon, be advantageous, be profitable, be punished, be remunerative, be worthwhile, bear the cost, bear the expense, benefit, bequeath, bestow, bread, bring in, chip in, clear, come through, commission, compensation, confer, consideration, cough up, defray, defrayment, dig up, discharge, earnings, emolument, emoluments, extend, fee, foot, foot the bill, get even, get just desserts, get revenge, grant, hand over, handle, hire, honor, honorarium, income, indemnity, kick back, kick in, liquidate, make a return, make amends, make money, make payment, make up for, meed, meet, offer, pay back, pay dividends, pay off, pay one's dues, pay out, payment, perquisite, pittance, plunk down, prepay, present, proceeds, produce, proffer, profit, provide a living, punish, put up, reciprocate, reckoning, recompensation, recoup, redress, refund, reimbursement, remit, remunerate, remuneration, render, reparation, repay, requital, requite, retaliate, return, reward, salary, satisfaction, satisfy, scale, serve, services, settle, settle a score, settlement, show gain, show profit, square, square things, stake, stipend, stipendium, suffer, suffer consequences, sweeten, take care of, take-home, takings, wage, wages, yield, yield profit

Antonyms

confuse, debt, deny, deprive, dishonor, dissatisfy, dissuade, earn, fail, hold, keep, lose, loss, penalize, penalty, receive, refuse, take, take back, upset, withhold