Synset

give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
<verb.possession> freq. cnt.: 138 freq. cnt.: 138

sample sentences

"I paid four dollars for this sandwich"
"Pay the waitress, please"

verb frames

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something
They %s him to write the letter

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

payment payee payer payment pay

also see

fund pay off pay off pay off pay out

semantic pointers

hypernym

give

hyponym