Crossword-Solution: PAY 3 letters, 272 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Pay	v. t.	To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
Pay	v. t.	To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
Pay	v. t.	Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
Pay	v. t.	To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
Pay	v. t.	To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
Pay	v. t.	To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
Pay	v. i.	To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
Pay	v. i.	Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
Pay	n.	Satisfaction; content.
Pay	n.	An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PAY	anagram	PYA, YAP

We have 272 clues for the answer “PAY”

Clue	Answers
"Crime doesn't ___"	1 answer
"Danced in my scanties / Three bucks a night was the ___ / But I'm here" ("Follies" lyric)	1 answer
"You'll ___ for this!"	1 answer
"___ here" (store sign)	1 answer
Apple ___ (Venmo alternative)	1 answer
Apple ___ (financial app)	1 answer
Bacon, figuratively	1 answer
Be advantageous	1 answer
Be profitable to.	1 answer
Be punished (for)	1 answer
Be the object of a vengeful act	1 answer
Be worth it	1 answer
Be worth the effort.	1 answer
Be worthwhile to do	1 answer
Bestow upon, as a compliment	1 answer
Big event of the work week.	1 answer
Bring in as a return.	1 answer
Cancel a debt	1 answer
Certain dirt	1 answer
Close a tab	1 answer
Close out a bar tab	1 answer
Close the tab	1 answer
Cough up the bucks	1 answer
Cough up the cash	1 answer
Deem worth it	1 answer
Dirt or roll	1 answer
Discharge a debt	1 answer
Discharge debts	1 answer
Dunner's imperative	1 answer
Envelope's contents, at times	1 answer
Equal ___ for equal work	1 answer
Give dollaz to	1 answer
Give, as a compliment	1 answer
Hand over jack	1 answer
Info in many a help wanted ad	1 answer
Insert a token, say	1 answer
Introduction to dirt?	1 answer
It's illegal for employers to prohibit workers from discussing this	1 answer
Job consideration	1 answer
Job specification	1 answer
Kind of dirt	1 answer
Kind of dirt or load	1 answer
Lay down some bucks	1 answer
Liquidate a debt	1 answer
Make an expenditure	1 answer
Make, as a visit.	1 answer
Nirvana "___ to Play"	1 answer
PLANK down	1 answer
Piper's due	1 answer
Piper's fee.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETRAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PAY (5)

But yet all is not don; Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns Against the high Supremacie of Heav’n, Affecting God-head, and so loosing all, To expiate his Treason hath naught left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He with his whole posteritie must die, Die hee or Justice must; unless for him Som other able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction, death for death.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, “O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass.” They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Bondly came over to see Colonel Lloyd the next day, whether to pay him for his property, or to justify himself in what he had done, I know not.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

That will give us upwards of fourteen hundred acres, won’t it? You won’t have to pay off your mortgages for six years.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

The ability to pay for imports therefore continues to rest largely on the vagaries of the climate and the international coffee market.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Quotes with PAY (3)

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Bill Hicks

Was I sorry that I chose to come by hand cart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Hand Cart Company.

Francis Webster

Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for you?" "Sell me your sea- boots, Mr. Fay," says O'Sullivan, polite as can be. "But what will you be wantin' of them?" says I. "'Twill be a great favour," says O'Sullivan. "But it's my only pair," says I; "and you have a pair of your own," says I. "Mr. Fay, I'll be needin' me own in bad weather," says O'Sullivan. "Besides," says I, "you have no money." "I'll pay for them when we …

Jack London The Mutiny of the Elsinore

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 309 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).