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paying (root: pay)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective paying has 2 senses
- paying(s = adj.all) gainful, paid - yielding a fair profit; Array
- paying(s = adj.all) compensable, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary - for which money is paid; "a paying job"; "remunerative work"; "salaried employment"; "stipendiary services"
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paying, n.
the act of paying money. [WordNet 1.5]
paying, adj.
- yielding material gain or profit; as, paying investments. [WordNet 1.5]
- providing a salary for work performed; as, a paying job. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
paying
acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, advantageous, amortization, amortizement, banausic, binder, breadwinning, cash, cash payment, clearance, compensating, compensative, compensatory, debt service, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, fat, gainful, good, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, installment, installment plan, interest payment, liquidation, lucrative, moneymaking, monthly payments, never-never, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, prepayment, productive, profitable, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, remittance, remunerative, reparative, repaying, retirement, retributive, retributory, rewardful, rewarding, satisfaction, satisfying, settlement, sinking-fund payment, solvent, sound, spot cash, weekly payments, well-paying, worthwhileROGET THESAURUS
paying
Acquisition
N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.Payment
N payment, defrayment, discharge, acquittance, quittance, settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement, acknowledgment, release, receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands, voucher, salary, compensation, remuneration (reward), repayment, reimbursement, retribution, pay, money paid, ready money, stake, remittance, installment, payer, liquidator, pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead, paying, paid, owing nothing, out of debt, all straight, unowed, never indebted, to the tune of, on the nail, money down.
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