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Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.
Judy Biggert

Meaning of "pay-as-you-go" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO

pay-as-you-go  [ˌpeɪəzjəˈɡəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pay-As-You-Go is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PAY-AS-YOU-GO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pay-as-you-go in the English dictionary

The definition of pay-as-you-go in the dictionary is a system of paying for something as expenses are incurred rather than in advance, and therefore not allowing for debts to build up.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PAY-AS-YOU-GO


ago
əˈɡəʊ
bego
bɪˈɡəʊ
forego
fɔːˈɡəʊ
forgo
fɔːˈɡəʊ
leggo
leˈɡəʊ
magot
mɑːˈɡəʊ
misgo
ˌmɪsˈɡəʊ
no-go
ˌnəʊˈɡəʊ
outgo
ˌaʊtˈɡəʊ
overgo
ˌəʊvəˈɡəʊ
stop-and-go
ˌstɒpəndˈɡəʊ
touch-and-go
ˌtʌtʃənˈɡəʊ
undergo
ˌʌndəˈɡəʊ
upgo
ʌpˈɡəʊ
wayleggo
ˌweɪlɛˈɡəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAY-AS-YOU-GO

pay raise
pay rise
pay scale
pay station
pay structure
pay television
pay the piper and call the tune
pay through the nose
pay up
pay-and-display
pay-as-you-throw
pay-cable channel
pay-per-click
pay-per-view
pay-TV
payable
payably
payback
payback period
payback time

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAY-AS-YOU-GO

cargo
Chicago
Domingo
from the get-go
get-go
get-up-and-go
go
go-go
have-a-go
Hugo
I-go
largo
Lego
logo
on the go
San Diego
Santiago
stop-go
to go
Tobago

Synonyms and antonyms of pay-as-you-go in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pay-as-you-go» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO

Find out the translation of pay-as-you-go to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pay-as-you-go from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pay-as-you-go» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

随收随付即付
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pay-as - you-go
570 millions of speakers

English

pay-as-you-go
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भुगतान के रूप में तुम जाओ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دفع الاستحقاقات أولا بأول
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

платить - как - вы-го
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pay- as-you -go
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যেমনি খরচ তেমনি পরিশোধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pay-as- you-go
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

bayar semasa awak hendak pergi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pay-as -you-go
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

利用時払い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유료 로 - 당신 - 이동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pay-as-you-go
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pay-as- you-go
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சேவைக்கு பணம் கொடுக்கவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पे-व्हा-यू-गो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pay-as-you-go
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Paghi - as- you-go
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pay-as -you-go
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

платити - як-ви - го
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pay-as - you-go
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pay- as-you -go
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

betaal - as - you-go
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pay- as-you -go
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pay- as- you-go
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pay-as-you-go

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAY-AS-YOU-GO»

The term «pay-as-you-go» is quite widely used and occupies the 33.846 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pay-as-you-go

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3 QUOTES WITH «PAY-AS-YOU-GO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pay-as-you-go.
1
Melissa Bean
The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
2
Judy Biggert
Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.
3
Ginny Brown-Waite
Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAY-AS-YOU-GO»

Discover the use of pay-as-you-go in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pay-as-you-go and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Life-cycle Distributional Consequences of Pay-as-you-go ...
In a public pay-as-you-go pension system individuals never directly pay for their own pension. But this does not necessarily mean that there is a great deal of interpersonal redistribution in such a pension system; it may be the case that, over ...
Jane Falkingham, Paul Johnson, 1993
2
Pay-as-you-go Data Cleaning and Integration
The key principle used in my research for enabling data cleaning and integration techniques for these new data sources is the concept of pay-as-you-go [FHM05]. When applied to data cleaning and integration, this principle states that these ...
Shawn R. Jeffery, 2008
3
The Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds
However, there may be political or economic circumstances under which governmental officials or the taxpayers or ratepayers may favor a pay-as-you-go approach. In pay-as-you-go, the capital projects are fully funded at the time of ...
‎2001
4
Concepts in Federal Taxation 2011
Pay-as- You-Go Concept The U.S. income tax system is one in which voluntary compliance is essential to the operation of the system. Most taxpayers comply with the requirement that they file a return each year and pay the tax due on their  ...
Kevin Murphy, Mark Higgins, 2010
5
Pension Systems: Sustainability and Distributional Effects ...
3.2.1 Method of finance: pay-as-you-go financing versus funding A large part of the recent scientific discourse on pensions has focused on the advantages and disadvantages of the two choices concerning the financing mechanism of a ...
Birgit Mattil, 2006
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Structured Products and Related Credit Derivatives: A ...
The pay-as-you-go (PAUG) forms were designed to closely mimic the relevant cash flows of the reference bonds. The resulting forms compensate the protection buyer for principal write-downs and shortfalls as well as any interest shortfalls just  ...
Brian P. Lancaster, Glenn M. Schultz, Frank J. Fabozzi, 2008
7
Local Budgeting
Pay-as-you-go capital financing by local governments or public entities comes from taxes and other annual revenues ... Public pay-as-you-go or private equity financing stands in contrast to debt financing, in which the public entity or private  ...
Anwar Shah, 2007
8
Handbook of Debt Management
Bernard Smith Department of Finance, City of Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada The pay-as-you-go method of funding means simply that capital works are paid for from the government's current revenue base and that the municipality does ...
Gerald J. Miller, 1996
9
The Economics of Pensions: Principles, Policies, and ...
Immature (i.e., recently started) pay-as-you-go systems typically show surpluses, which often turn into deficits when the ratio of pensioners to workers reaches that implied by system maturity. Changing demographic conditions also impinge on ...
Salvador Valdés-Prieto, 1999
10
Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction
flaw — the social security taxes paid into the system now are not saved and invested through a trust fund as in private insurance, savings, or pension plans, but instead are paid out immediately to current recipients on a pay-as-you-go basis, ...
Peter J. Ferrara, 1980

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAY-AS-YOU-GO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pay-as-you-go is used in the context of the following news items.
1
4G bandwagon: Airtel to roll out services before Reliance Jio
Airtel has already slashed its pay-as-you-go rate by 83 per cent. Currently, if consumers exhaust the limit on their data plan, they pay 4 ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
2
How are retirement communities organized?
Type C: Fee-for-Service uses a pay-as-you-go basis for health care beyond independent living. Monthly costs for assisted living and memory ... «Glens Falls Post-Star, Jul 15»
3
More homeowners putting properties on the market
Pay-as-you-go agent HouseSimple.com has compiled a Property Supply Index looking at the number of new properties listed every week on ... «Worthing Herald, Jul 15»
4
Make Cheap Calls Online Using BitPhone
... that wants to provide its users with the ability to make cheap and secure phone calls online using Bitcoins in a pay-as-you-go system. «CoinBuzz, Jul 15»
5
Pensions not an ageing crisis, but a policy crisis
The government schemes are unfunded, which means that they do not have any assets; they are called, rather quaintly, pay-as-you-go ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
6
Startups Grow In Africa, But Ecosystems Need More To Flourish
... of the founders of M-Kopa, a startup that provides SIM-card enabled solar panels that allow users to pay-as-you-go through a mobile phone. «TechCrunch, Jul 15»
7
Europe Running On Borrowed Time - John Mauldin
... the critical point in the medical arena, with most drug and medical companies already dealing with Greek hospitals on a pay-as-you-go basis. «GuruFocus.com, Jul 15»
8
New state legislator Dye faces former sheriff and Othello Democrat …
She'd prefer to tackle transportation projects in smaller pay-as-you-go pieces, rather than the bond in place now that requires borrowing money ... «Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, Jul 15»
9
Soon Google Voice might actually do a decent job of transcribing …
Google's pay-as-you-go wireless plan Project Fi uses a lot of technology from the Google Voice project, and Google likely doesn't want the ... «Digital Trends, Jul 15»
10
Vodafone reports acceleration in quarterly growth
The company has also seen a continued migration here from pay-as-you-go to contract, with an increase of 18,600 contract customers in the ... «RTE.ie, Jul 15»

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