PAY FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pay for mean? 

• PAY FOR (verb)
  The verb PAY FOR has 1 sense:

1. have as a guest

  Familiarity information: PAY FOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAY FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have as a guest

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

invite; pay for

Context example:

I invited them to a restaurant

Hypernyms (to "pay for" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

He would send for the baby; though I entreated him rather to put it out to nurse and pay for its maintenance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Older people or their families usually pay for it.

(Assisted Living, Administration on Aging)

I told you I'd make you pay for being so cross yesterday, and I have, so...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In this country everyone must pay for everything he gets.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Many other types you have to pay for.

(Home Care Services, NIH)

A man must pay for his convenience; and it HAS cost me a vast deal of money.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was plainly Thomas Mugridge’s intention to make me pay for those three days.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They little think how much it comes to, or what their parents, or their uncles and aunts, pay for them in the course of the year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

See if you can get one or two robust company perks that would cost quite a bit of money if you had to pay for them yourself.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

After all, if these people had strange fads and expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were at least ready to pay for their eccentricity.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)