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Meaning of "pay up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PAY UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAY UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pay up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES PAY UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pay up in the English dictionary

The definition of pay up in the dictionary is to pay promptly, in full, or on demand.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAY UP

pay dispute
pay down
pay envelope
pay for
pay in
pay increase
pay off
pay offer
pay one´s way
pay out
pay packet
pay raise
pay rise
pay scale
pay station
pay structure
pay television
pay the piper and call the tune
pay through the nose
pay-and-display

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAY UP

buy up
cosy up
cowboy up
cry up
dry up
go belly up
gussy up
key up
lay up
marry up
pally up
play up
pony up
shinny up

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

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PAY UP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pay up» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pay up

Translation of «pay up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PAY UP

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

Translator English - Chinese

支付高达
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pagar hasta
570 millions of speakers

English

pay up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऊपर का भुगतान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دفع ما يصل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заплатить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pagar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মুল্য পরিশোধ করুন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

payer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bayar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zahlen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

支払う
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지불
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbayar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trả sạch nợ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஊதியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पैसे द्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tamamen ödemek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pagare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zapłacić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заплатити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plăti în sus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταβάλουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

betaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

betala
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

betale opp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pay up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAY UP»

The term «pay up» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.203 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PAY UP» OVER TIME

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «PAY UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pay up.
1
Anne Campbell
Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.
2
Ken Salazar
Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAY UP»

Discover the use of pay up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pay up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, ...
Wray Vamplew examines the linkages between sport, gambling, crime and spectator violence, and concludes that many supposedly 'recent' developments (notably football hooliganism) in fact have their origins in this, the 'Golden Age' of sport ...
Wray Vamplew, 2004
2
Pay Up
Neighbor. Friend.
Kaily Hart, 2010
3
Hell to Pay
All desperate people running out of time. When their worlds collide, there'll be hell to pay.
Shaun Hutson, 2010
4
Fight Back and Win: How to Get HMOs and Health Insurance to ...
The health care system in this country is broke; and more than ever, the evidence supports the contention that managed health care providers care more about healthy profits than healthy people.FIGHT BACK AND WIN is a practical how-to for ...
William M. Shernoff, 1999
5
Focus Structure in Generative Grammar: An Integrated ...
They said that nobody would pay up, but I know a boy who did pay up b. They said that nobody would pay up, but pay up I know a boy who did c. They said that Tom would pay up, and that he did pay up is well- known d. They said that Tom ...
Carsten Breul, 2004
6
Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach
To illustrate, Pay Up Inc. is a collection agency that operates nationwide through 37 offices. The company is not well known, its stock is not very liquid, its earnings have fluctuated quite a bit in the past, and it doesn't pay a dividend. All this ...
Michael Ehrhardt, Eugene Brigham, 2008
7
Pay Up Or Else!
Robert is worried about his best friend Philip, who seems very quiet lately.
Anne de Bode, Rien Broere, 1999
8
Developing and Administering a Child Care and Education Program
When families are able to pay, it is important to determine what they are willing to pay for center- based or home-based care. It is reasonable to expect that many families can afford to pay up to 10 percent of their total income for child care.
Dorothy Sciarra, Anne Dorsey, Ellen Lynch, 2009
9
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
... coverage, may exclude many conditions and situations, and may not pay up until you're back home. Look for a policy that specifies up-front coverage — that is , the insurer will make arrangements to pay the hospital directly while you're there  ...
10
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and ...
... phone companies make it easy and expected for kids to pay up to 20 cents when they send a text message, but it seems technologically and psychologically difficult to get people to pay 10 cents for a magazine, newspaper, or newscast.
Walter Isaacson, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAY UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pay up is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Less than half pay up in first round of water bills
Less than half of Irish Water customers have paid their first bill on time but Irish Water have claimed the figures are 'broadly in line' with what it ... «Fingal Independent, Jul 15»
2
WATCH: Lebo M tells Robert Marawa to pay up
eNCA sat down with Lebo M at his 51st birthday celebration to discuss his foundation and the child maintenance case involving his girlfriend ... «eNCA, Jul 15»
3
Pay up for petty police calls, Pohatcong officials tell stores
Pohatcong Township retailers requiring excessive police assistance for petty crimes and retail thefts soon will have to pay up. Township council ... «lehighvalleylive.com, Jul 15»
4
Ex-miner who made £200000 from crime told: 'Pay up or go to jail'
But his realisable assets were only found to amount to £65,000, and he has been given three months to pay half of that – or go back to prison. «Hull Daily Mail, Jul 15»
5
NLC to Governors: Pay up or prepare for protests
Factional Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) leader Joe Ajaero on Friday advised state governors owing workers to pay their salaries to avoid ... «P.M. News, Jul 15»
6
Mortgage broker ordered to pay up £850k
Mortgage broker ordered to pay up £850k. Friday Jul 24th , 2015. Tom Belger. A mortgage broker has been ordered to pay £800,000 within 28 days or face a ... «B&C Distributor, Jul 15»
7
Chand Nawab wants Salman Khan to pay up for using his character …
It's not just rave reviews and great box office numbers that the film is attracting! We've all loved and appreciated Nawazuddin Siddiqui's ... «Bollywood Life, Jul 15»
8
Health to pay up for negligence
THE Pietermaritzburg High Court has ordered the MEC for Health in KZN to pay R107 648 for past medical expenses that were incurred on ... «News24, Jul 15»
9
'Pay up if you want an asylum permit'
Of the five refugee reception offices in the country‚ Marabastad in Pretoria is the most corrupt‚ a research report released by Lawyers for Human ... «Sowetan Live, Jul 15»
10
Zambia no fool to pay up
Zambia no fool to pay up. Those watching Zambia bonds might think that the $1.25bn deal this week yielding 9.375% demonstrates a borrower ... «GlobalCapital, Jul 15»

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