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I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
Robert Morgan

Meaning of "pay dirt" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PAY DIRT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAY DIRT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pay dirt is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PAY DIRT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pay dirt in the English dictionary

The definition of pay dirt in the dictionary is a deposit rich enough in minerals to be worth mining.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAY DIRT

pay award
pay back
pay bargaining
pay bed
Pay Board
pay cheque
pay claim
pay cut
pay deal
pay desk
pay dispute
pay down
pay envelope
pay for
pay in
pay increase
pay off
pay offer
pay one´s way
pay out

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAY DIRT

dirt
dish the dirt
do someone dirt
dress shirt
eat dirt
flirt
girt
miniskirt
pencil skirt
polo shirt
shirt
skirt
squirt
strike pay dirt
sweatshirt
T-shirt
tee shirt
tee-shirt
treat someone like dirt
upskirt

Synonyms and antonyms of pay dirt in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pay dirt» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PAY DIRT

Find out the translation of pay dirt to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pay dirt 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 dirt» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

薪酬污垢
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

negocio redondo
570 millions of speakers

English

pay dirt
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गंदगी का भुगतान
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

دفع الأوساخ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

жилу
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pagar sujeira
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ময়লা পেট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la saleté de salaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Membayar kotoran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pay- Schmutz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

有料汚れ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유료 먼지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbayar rereget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trả đất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அழுக்கு கொடுக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घाण द्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Madenli toprak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sporcizia di paga
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pay dirt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жилу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

murdărie plata
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pay βρωμιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

betaal vuil
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lön smuts
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pay Dirt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pay dirt

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAY DIRT»

The term «pay dirt» is regularly used and occupies the 77.183 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PAY DIRT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pay dirt

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QUOTES WITH «PAY DIRT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pay dirt.
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Robert Morgan
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAY DIRT»

Discover the use of pay dirt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pay dirt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports
So there should be a wide readership for this intelligent guide to reading newspapers' sports pages, which increasingly resemble business pages."--George Will
James P. Quirk, 1997
2
Pay Dirt: How To Make $10,000 a Year From Your Backyard Garden
In this practical, step-by-step guide, you will learn how to: Sell overstock to local restaurants Participate in farmer's markets Grow cut flowers to sell Package your produce attractively Keep honey bees, chickens, and other alternative ...
John Tullock, 2010
3
Pay Dirt: Fortunes and Misfortunes of an Alaskan Gold Miner
When Minnesota hog farmer Otis Hahn bought a gold mine at Bear Creek, Alaska, he never guessed what adventures, adversity, and lessons in human nature lay ahead.
Otis Hahn, Alice Vollmar, Tricia Brown, 1998
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Pay dirt
Clint Adams, the Gunsmith, is lured to the small town of Bended Knee, Arkansas, a town run by the Cahill clan, a family whose patriarch was a career outlaw, and finds himself threatened by an all-out showdown with several of the most famous ...
J. R. Roberts, 2001
5
Pay Dirt: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Murphy and her friends, Welsh corgi Tee Tucker and overweight feline Pewter, haven't been slinking through alleys for nothing. But can they dig up the truth in time to save their humans from a ruthless killer? From the Paperback edition.
Rita Mae Brown, 2004
6
Pay Dirt: Farming and Gardening with Composts
Reprint. Originally published: Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, c1945.
Jerome Irving Rodale, 2010
7
Pay Dirt: How to Raise and Sell Herbs and Produce for ...
Included in this revised, second edition is information about community sustained agriculture which is fast becoming the way to guarantee an income from your farm as well as secure outlets for your products.Even city dwellers interested in ...
Mimi Luebbermann, 1997
8
Pay Dirt: And Other Whispering Sands Stories of Gold Fever ...
This collection of stories, selected from the Whispering Sands stories originally published in "Argosy" between 1931 and 1934, features desert prospector Bob Zane in tales of outlaws, Indians, and adventure
Erle Stanley Gardner, Charles G. Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg, 1983
9
Rock Poker to Pay Dirt: The History of Alaska's School of ...
Rock Poker, a game created by a School of Mines professor in the 1920's, describes the high-risk high-reward investment while pursuing a minerals degree.
Leslie M. Noyes, 2001
10
Pay Dirt, Or, Adventures at Ash Lawn
Crozet, Virginia, postmistress and town gossip Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen gets help from her nosy tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, in solving the strange case of a murdered Hell's Angel and a rampant computer virus
Rita Mae Brown, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAY DIRT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pay dirt is used in the context of the following news items.
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Starting From the Bottom, Has Producer Will Packer Made It to The …
Moving up from the Trois series, Packer struck pay dirt with Stomp The Yard, his first film to debut at number one. Packer's approach to ... «Atlanta Black Star, Jul 15»
2
Buccaneers Fantasy Preview
Including college, Evans has hit pay dirt 27 times over his last 31 games. Even if Evans' TDs regress off 2014, he has lots of room for growth in ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
3
Sun routs Rebels in opener
... was a 56-yard touchdown bomb to Kyle Kawamoto, then five minutes later Kory Nagata took a pitch from Bedore and ran 20 yards to pay dirt. «Kelowna Capital News, Jul 15»
4
NC's 'Our Bob' once fed on publicity just as Trump does today
But in 1932, Reynolds hit pay dirt when he upset Sen. Cameron Morrison, a former governor and a wealthy Charlottean, in the Democratic ... «News & Observer, Jul 15»
5
Sharks Clinch Playoff Spot With 63-16 Rout of Storm
After Tampa Bay answered with a score, the Sharks found pay dirt again, as Grady hit Tiger Jones for a 19-yard strike, putting Jacksonville ... «Arenafan, Jul 15»
6
Going away? Secure the home front
Anything with your name and address on it could be pay dirt for a thief. Clean out anything with even a hint of your personal information, ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
7
The Naturalization Papers
None of this is extraordinary in itself: Many writers have struggled for decades before hitting pay dirt and vaulting into the pantheon. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
8
Could the Gate to the Garden of Eden Be in Beit She'an? (And …
Elsewhere on the site is a huge mound called a "tell," where archaeologists dig for pay dirt marking different times in Israel's history under ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
'Irrational Man' review
Allen makes a movie a year, and while he often hits pay dirt there are years when it feels like he should have taken some time off, maybe ... «CTV News, Jul 15»
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Maggie review: Arnold Schwarzenegger's zombie flick a rave from …
... office flops and creative misfires, the erstwhile 'Governator's' comeback has finally hit artistic pay dirt with this post-apocalyptic zombie yarn. «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»

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