Read full poem →Rest you, charger, rust you, bridle;
Kings and kesars, keep your pay;
Soldier, sit you down and idle
Dictionary Entry
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
In a Sentence
“Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing their pays.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. payattention payoff pay
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “pay”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →For pay and medals, name and rank,
Things that he has not found,
Read full poem →What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.
Read full poem →Morpheus hovering o'er my pillow,
Hear me pay my dying vows.
Read full poem →Say with what eyes we ought at courts to gaze,
And pay the great our homage of amaze?
If weak the pleasure that from these can spring,
Read full poem →Sink down, ye mountains, and ye valleys, rise;
With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay;
Be smooth, ye rocks, ye rapid floods, give way!
Read full poem →Trudges to town, and first turns chambermaid;
Awkward and supple, each devoir to pay,
She flatters her good lady twice a-day;
Read full poem →Such various learning mixed in ev'ry part,
Poets are bound a loud applause to pay; 15
Apollo bids it, and they must obey.
Read full poem →If man's life borrow
And man's death pay--
If souls once taken,
Read full poem →'For my worldly things God makes him pay,
And he'd pay for more if to him I would pray;