I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gamble pays off (= succeeds )
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She gave up a career in law to become an actor, but the gamble has paid off.
a pay cheque (= one that you get for doing your job )
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My pay cheque arrived at the end of each week.
a pay deal (= one that involves an agreement about how much people will be paid )
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They are currently negotiating a new pay deal.
a pay dispute (= about how much money employees are paid )
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The pay dispute involved 450 staff.
a pay/salary scale
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As a senior teacher, she has reached the top of her pay scale.
a policy pays out (= pays you money when you claim it )
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I thought my insurance policy would pay out.
a price/pay/wage freeze
a wage/pay/salary increase
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Canadian workers received a 5.4% wage increase.
cost/spend/pay a small fortune
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It must have cost him a small fortune.
earn/be paid a pittance
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The musicians earn a pittance.
equal pay
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The workers’ demands include equal pay for equal work.
gross income/salary/pay etc
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a family with gross earnings of just £75 per week
insurance pays for sth
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His insurance paid for the damage to the car.
it pays to advertise (= advertising brings good results )
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Colleges and universities have found that it pays to advertise .
low income/pay/wages
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families existing on very low incomes
make/pay a visit
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The king made an official visit to Poland last year.
make/pay obeisance (to sb/sth)
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They made obeisance to the sultan.
maternity benefits/pay etc (= money that the government or employers give to a woman after she has had a baby )
overtime pay/payments/earnings
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The salary figure does not include overtime pay.
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If Joe worked 100 hours overtime at time and a half, his overtime payments would be $15,662.
paid employment (= a job for which you receive money )
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51% of women return to paid employment within 5 years of having a child.
paid in full
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The debt must be paid in full .
paid peanuts
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The hotel workers get paid peanuts .
paid work
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She hasn’t done any paid work since she had children.
paid/unpaid leave
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She took three days unpaid leave in order to help her daughter.
paid/unpaid overtime
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Many teachers do a lot of unpaid overtime.
pay a bill
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Most people pay their bills on time.
pay a bribe
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It was claimed that the company paid bribes to win the contract.
pay a charge
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There will be a small charge to pay.
pay a deposit
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Car hire firms may ask you to pay a deposit in advance.
pay a fee
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You have to pay a small fee to rent a locker.
pay a fine/pay £100/$50 etc in fines
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She was ordered to pay £150 in parking fines, plus court costs.
pay a fine/pay £100/$50 etc in fines
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She was ordered to pay £150 in parking fines, plus court costs.
pay a fortune (= pay a lot of money )
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We had to pay a fortune in rent.
pay a good/low etc price
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I paid a very reasonable price for my guitar.
pay a premium
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Consumers are prepared to pay a premium for organically grown vegetables.
pay a price (= suffer )
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We paid a heavy price for our mistakes this season.
pay a subscription
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We pay a monthly subscription for the sports channel.
pay a wage
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Some firms still paid lower wages to female workers.
pay attention to sth/sb
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He read the final page, paying particular attention to the last paragraph.
pay by card
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Is it all right if I pay by card?
pay (by) cash
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They won’t take credit cards, so you have to pay cash.
pay by cheque
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You can pay by cheque or credit card.
pay in a cheque (= pay a cheque into your bank account )
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I went to the bank to pay in a couple of cheques.
pay into a pension (= pay money regularly so that you will have a pension later )
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They have been unable to pay into a pension.
pay money (for sth)
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Has he paid the money he owes you?
pay off a debt (= pay the money back )
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The first thing I'm going to do is pay off my debts.
pay off a mortgage (= finish paying all the money you owe )
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They paid off their mortgage five years early.
pay packet
pay phone
pay regard to sth
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The architect who designed the building paid too little regard to its function.
pay reparations
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The government agreed to pay reparations to victims.
pay rise
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Some company directors have awarded themselves huge pay rises.
pay sb a salary
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Large companies often pay better salaries.
pay sb a visit (= visit someone )
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Perhaps she'll come up to town then and pay me a visit.
pay sb compensation
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Passengers will be paid compensation if their baggage is lost or damaged.
pay sb’s expenses
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They agreed to pay my travel expenses and initial accommodation costs.
pay tax
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Many people feel they are paying too much tax.
pay the cost of sth
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I’m not sure how I’m going to pay the cost of going to college.
pay the rent
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She couldn’t afford to pay the rent.
pay tribute to (= praise and admire publicly )
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I’d like to pay tribute to the party workers for all their hard work.
pay TV
pay...by...instalments
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They’re letting me pay for the washing machine by monthly instalments .
pay/charge by the hour (= pay or charge someone according to the number of hours it takes to do something )
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You can pay by the hour to hire a boat.
pay/charge/cost etc extra
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I earn extra for working on Sunday.
pay...dues
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Robert failed to pay his dues last year.
pay/give sb a compliment
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He was always paying her compliments.
paying dearly for
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Ordinary people are paying dearly for the mistakes of this administration.
pay...ransom
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The government refused to pay the ransom .
pay/repay a mortgage
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If I lose my job, we won't be able to pay the mortgage.
pays homage to
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The film pays homage to Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’.
pay/wage cuts
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Millions of workers face pay cuts.
pay/wage/salary differential
performance-related pay
redundancy money/pay
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He spent his redundancy money on a plot of land.
redundancy pay
repay/pay off/pay back a loan (= give back the money you borrowed, usually over a period of time )
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You can repay the loan early without a penalty.
repay/pay off/pay back a loan (= give back the money you borrowed, usually over a period of time )
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You can repay the loan early without a penalty.
sick pay (= money paid to an employee who is too ill to work )
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Only full-time employees got sick pay.
sick pay
sth is a small price to pay (= something is worth suffering in order to achieve something more important )
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Changing his job would be a small price to pay to keep his marriage intact.
strike pay
take-home pay
the rate of interest/pay/tax etc
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They believe that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax.
wage/pay bargaining
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The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
amount
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Except Medicare, which pays the full amount .
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Another way to measure an individual's capacity to pay tax is the amount of capital assets he or she may have.
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It is particularly useful for paying fixed amounts such as club subscriptions and insurance premiums.
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Sun is paying an undisclosed amount towards the cost of the project, thereby fulfilling some of its operating obligations down under.
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Why he did not pay the full amount must remain a mystery.
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A depositor was to be paid three-quarters of the amount of his deposit, but limited to a maximum deposit of £10,000.
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The buyer receives a further 100 from the seller who has to pay an equivalent amount as variation margin.
attention
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They certainly pay close attention to one another's progress, frequently glancing from side to side to check on each other's position.
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Until you start paying attention , that is.
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Anyone wishing to tackle crime rates must pay enormous attention to youth crime because of its sheer scale.
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Or is he in his thalamus, since it helps determine what he pays attention to?
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He rarely paid any attention to the plays progressing below him.
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No one was paying any attention to this except for Gao Ma.
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Traditionally, literary criticism has paid little attention to questions of precise historical contextualisation.
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Children need to know that their parents are not always thinking about and paying attention to them.
bill
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Now they have to spend their mornings planning budgets and their afternoons paying bills .
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She remembered the stress on her parents, trying to pay bills for themselves and five kids.
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Being her uncle would account for him paying her bills !
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Did she suspect I had no money to pay the bill ?
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It's aim is to simplify vendors' programmes, so that a customer has to pay only one bill .
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I suppose I began my first little businesses because my parents needed me to help pay the bills .
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He died penniless, with over £17,000 owing to him, on 27 December 1650, unable to pay his doctor's bill .
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We had to make our budgets and pay our bills .
cash
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And he sometimes paid them in cash , to speed things up.
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It also shows why most aggressive, self-confident executives would rather be paid in stock than cash .
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With the bank's business-start loans, firms pay back the cash not with interest but with a royalty on sales.
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Manufacturers, through brokers, pay incentives, either cash or products, to stock particular foods or to promote them.
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If you can not pay cash for these extras, they will have to be added to your loan.
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That will be paid off by using cash flow, or replacing it with medium or long-term bonds.
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ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC roundback or similar, reasonable condition, will pay cash .
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Group members offer session discounts to patients who pay cash .
company
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In addition, companies pay taxes on any profits they eventually make, as well as dish out dividends to shareholders.
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The company said it paid with about $ 25 million in cash and $ 159 million in mortgage financing.
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If an insurance company were having to pay out, they would want a lot more information than we are being offered.
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When the company paid up, it did not even flinch.
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The two companies paid $ 1 billion for Madison Square Garden two years ago.
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It will normally be beneficial for a company to pay a dividend just before its year end.
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They usually employ many part-time staff since this reduces the amount of National Insurance contributions the company has to pay .
compensation
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This has made Britain happy, since it has not had to pay out compensation to white farmers.
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You pay tax on the compensation , but the corporation saves an offsetting amount of tax by deducting the compensation payment.
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In addition, the CanadianInvestor Protection Fund can pay compensation to savers and investors in some circumstances.
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At first, the store declined to pay compensation .
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Instead of paying that compensation , the person concerned served an extra week in prison.
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A park keeper was ordered to pay £800 compensation to the owner of a £1,000 model yacht he sank.
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The problem emerged yesterday in the board's report for 1988/9 when it paid record compensation of £69.4 million to 27,752 victims.
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Wilkins was fined a further £75 for the assault charge and ordered to pay the officer £20 compensation .
cost
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If you don't qualify for a voucher you will have to pay the full cost of the glasses yourself.
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Despite lawsuits some police departments remained indifferent, because the city, and not individual officers, had to pay the costs .
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While two companies were prepared to pay this cost for their searches, three others were less willing to do so.
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But nobody wanted to pay the cost .
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Judge Simon Goldstein fined her £20,000, ordered her to pay Pounds 4,691 costs and do 240 hours community service.
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He paid the cost of sending hundreds of library workers' childen to summer camp.
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We do not pay the cost of meals at the temporary accommodation. 2.
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Otherwise, polluters identified with specific sites had to pay the entire cost of those sites' cleanup themselves.
costs
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Plus we will pay your costs of returning the product.
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It was held that the refusal was unreasonable because the employers had agreed to pay the extra travelling costs .
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The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action, which had been due for trial in January.
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The government was ordered to pay costs of £100,000 to each newspaper.
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Particular attention will be paid to costs of production in Troyes, commercial policy and the quality of business leadership.
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The contractor is paid for the actual costs he incurs plus a previously agreed lump sum for his overheads and profit.
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Mr Uddin was fined £420 for each offence and ordered to pay £75 costs .
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They were each given a two year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £35 costs .
credit
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He always paid by credit card and he always kept the receipts for his accountant.
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You pay by credit card at least 10 days before departure.
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There seems no reason why they should have to pay extra for credit , to get a benefit they would judge unnecessary.
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Some resorts also offer promotional discounts if you pay with one specific credit card or another.
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And as long as you pay by credit card, you have the peace of mind of being covered against fraud.
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Customers can pay by credit card or with their monthly phone bill starting next month.
debt
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On many occasions I asked Alf if he had taken the money to pay the debt but he never did!
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Xerox is expected to use the cash to pay down debt from the insurance unit.
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The family were not rich; much of their land had been sold to pay the debts of successive wastrel sons.
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Private placements can cover the costs of everything from paying off old debt to paying for a new factory.
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The £2,000 he did receive was used to pay off debts and to buy drugs, he said.
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He gets two years to pay the debt , including liens, or could face losing the ranch.
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Eight countries that have received debt relief are still paying more on their debts than on health and education.
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If her father did not pay his debts immediately, he said, he would evict father and daughter.
dividend
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The society pays no dividends , so after-tax profits can be retained as capital.
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These companies have very high demands for equity capital to finance their growth and generally pay no dividends or very low dividends.
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In the near term, it does not intend to pay any dividends , instead ploughing all profits back.
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Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends .
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Fortified by his second election victory Adenauer adhered to his policies, which continued to pay dividends .
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At marginal mines, small improvements could pay big dividends .
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It is this time which pays dividends .
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Making tough choices now will pay dividends in the far-off days of summer.
dollar
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Out-of-staters pay millions of tax dollars to local governments.
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Salomon Brothers paid the ten-thousand-\#dollar bill racked up by the wife of its mailroom clerk with three months' tenure.
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My suits come from Savile Row-when you're getting suits there, you know you're paying top dollar .
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Marshall remembers how his father used to resist paying even five dollars weekly for child support.
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With only half the contents missing, it has paid me ten dollars more.
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Seven years later, consumers find themselves paying top dollar once again.
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One pays top dollar and one gets really good people.
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Make the call to be sure you are not paying a dollar to save a dime.
expenses
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He often had to pay the wages and expenses of the royal huntsmen out of the issues of his bailiwick.
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The council also agreed to pay moving expenses and provide six months severance pay should they later fire him.
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He says it's a bit far to come but he thinks they pay expenses , so it's nice.
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We made arrangements to give several talks as a way of paying some of our expenses .
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These councillors were not paid for their services and paid their own expenses .
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The action frees Allstate from paying expenses and eliminates traditional benefits such as pensions and health insurance for the agents.
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We will also pay any expenses you have our written permission to claim.
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They ignore the minor expense of health care for pregnant women, but pay the massive expenses of premature babies.
fee
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We will only pay these legal fees if they arise from an accident that is covered under this policy.
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By dealing in dollars you avoid paying high exchange fees or going home with a wad of pesos.
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Feeling the pinch ... the parents who won't pay their private school fees .
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Solution: We set up a station on the ground floor so drivers can pay their fees before getting in their cars.
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Salt River sued the state in November and will have to pay huge legal fees , Gates said.
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As another extra, Lovell will pay legal fees and survey costs up to £1,500.
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Hoffman-La Roche will pay an undisclosed signing fee and product royalties.
fine
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Twenty people were being held on December 31, 1999, local sources said, for not paying the fines .
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He was ordered to compensate all of the victims of the fire and pay a heavy fine .
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In addition, the couple must pay fines and costs totalling £875.
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She was ordered to pay £15 in library fines , £31.90 compensation and £25 costs.
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He go on and pay his fifty-dollar fine for preaching without a permit and go on back out here.
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Are those who have to pay fines deterred in future?
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Each agreed to write a letter of apology and pay a $ 500 fine .
interest
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The account pays interest at 4.5% gross over the headline retail price index.
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Most bonds pay interest semiannually at a rate equal to one-half of the annual coupon rate.
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Indeed, banks usually pay no interest on current account deposits.
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How about paying 20 percent interest on a second mortgage?
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The DfEE pays the interest on the loan while you are studying or retraining.
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Individuals would not pay taxes on interest or investment income, and businesses could not deduct the cost of fringe benefits.
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However, at current high interest rates, many employees can not afford to pay the interest on expensive bridging loans.
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The trust paid a rate of interest to its owners.
loan
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Again, separate life cover is required to pay off your loan in any eventuality.
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Some of them are still paying off student loans and confronting the increasing costs of educating their own children.
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And he will maintain the three-year moratorium on the interest that farmers pay on loans .
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The company, however, may have a gain because the long-term cost of paying back the loan is lower.
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You can pay off the loan early, at any time, without any penalty.
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Services include making sure payments are collected and insurance and taxes are paid on loans that are packaged and resold to investors.
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Last week the deadline for finding eight thousand pounds to pay back a loan from a mortgage company expired.
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They could drink a beer, buy typing paper or pay off a loan .
million
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He is not paid £20 million a year to come second.
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Bruno will be paid $ 6 million .
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Halifax is offering to pay £500 million for Equitable's asset management business, sales force and systems.
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Reimer agreed to pay $ 46 million in the civil lawsuit.
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But who is going to pay the $ 36 million promised to Executive Outcomes for its first three months of service?
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The president also would require tobacco companies to pay a $ 150 million advertising crusade to stop young people from smoking.
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The company agreed to pay nearly $ 1 million to cover costs, penalties and staff sensitivity-training courses.
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Unocal later pleads no contest to 12 criminal counts filed by the state and agrees to pay a $ 3 million fine.
money
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The girl told the magistrates she stole to get money to pay for cigarettes.
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Neither Sutton nor Samons would say how much money Reynolds paid .
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Now I make enough money to pay others to help at home and queue for me.
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Bank pressures already have forced them to sell off 30 prized purebred heifers to raise money to pay back debt.
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As mentioned earlier, the Convocation Library appeal raises money to pay for a number of journals in the library.
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One Southern deejay remembers asking a New York label for money to help pay off his insurance.
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The administrators are alleging that the company's money was misappropriated and paid away for no benefit to the company.
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But Francine ended up back with her natural parents in a dispute over how much money was to be paid .
mortgage
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You are a suitable candidate for remortgaging if you are one of the many millions who pay the standard variable mortgage rate.
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She no longer talked of needing funds to support herself or to pay off the mortgage on a ranch somewhere in Texas.
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Under an informal family arrangement they paid the mortgage instalments falling due under the local authority mortgage.
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Mortgage savings Homeowners could save the money they pay for unnecessary private mortgage insurance under legislation passed by the Senate Banking Committee.
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The Harrises were given two weeks to pay off mortgage arrears of £8,000.
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It is also possible to obtain cover to pay off the mortgage on the diagnosis of certain critical illnesses.
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He always goes to work, pays his mortgage and supports his family and his habit.
penalty
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But account-holders are limited to five withdrawals from the account each year without giving notice or paying a penalty .
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We can return home early without paying a penalty , he reports.
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But, be prepared to pay the penalty if you're sloppy and get it wrong!
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Gingrich has not decided whether to pay the financial penalty from personal or campaign funds, Maddox said.
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Keep within the limit and you will not pay the penalties that come with unauthorised overdrafts.
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Therefore his son must pay the penalty .
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When Model returned with his wife and children, Constable Bedford asked them if they wished to pay the fixed penalty immediately.
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Now it was his men that were paying the penalty .
pension
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Surprisingly, the government has managed to sell this idea to employers, who pay half of the pension contributions.
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But Envirodyne did not want to have to pay the pensions either.
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And they have a long-term interest in maintaining industry's prosperity, for that is what pays their pensions .
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Nobody would be paying the pensions .
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Moscow is at least paying pensions to those elderly people who are registered.
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Increase the amount all workers pay into their pension fund by one 0. 5 percent.
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The Government's option 2 - taking the fund and paying index-linked pensions itself has been dropped.
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What spouse's pension will be paid ?
percent
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On 10 May you open a 2-month market deposit paying 8.75 percent with 5,000,000.
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How about paying 20 percent interest on a second mortgage?
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In the first year of the plan, the government will pay 30 percent of their monthly payments.
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Nowadays, you lose a job, and the next job pays 20 percent or 30 percent less.
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On one hand, the Chancellor increased the number of people paying the reduced 20 percent rate of income tax.
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Rhode Island adopted at statute under which the state paid a 15 percent annual supplement to teachers in nonpublic elementary schools.
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You can pay up to 15 percent of your earnings altogether as contributions and still get tax relief.
premium
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Even if you have been paying premiums for many years, you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value.
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The difference is that he would pay the total premium costs to Medicare and leave out Medigap.
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Kuapa Kokoo pays a premium price plus a handling fee for these beans, which then pass to the Cocoa Marketing Company.
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States would get money to pay the insurance premiums .
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We can also cancel this policy straight away if you do not pay the premium or any instalment of the premium.
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In other words, they are willing to pay a premium for a chance to own shares.
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The claims of the careless, or merely unlucky, are paid for out of the premiums of the careful, or lucky.
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Investors who paid a premium for their securities also get hurt because consumers repay the debts at 100 cents on the dollar.
price
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Any of the above is a high price to pay to exercise our right to unforgiveness. 4 Forgiveness is a decision.
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Tax is the price we pay for a civilised society.
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The price to pay for a chance to celebrate the sport.
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Methodological orthodoxy seems to be the price many feminist psychologists pay to be considered psychologists.
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Is this the price that we must pay for democratic and inclusive education?
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This means farmers receive the real price from the market and there has been a price to pay in New Zealand.
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They'd been lucky, both of them, but the price they had to pay in memories was harsh.
rate
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The largely working-class suburbs pay higher rates for shared services to make up for the high percentage of Detroit residents who default.
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Bear Stearns paid taxes at a rate of 41 percent, up from 38 percent a year ago.
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There are occasions when we have grudged paying a top rate , but been too cowardly to refuse.
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Two-and three-year maturities were more active and traders were eager to pay fixed rates .
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So, by the time tax is calculated and paid , rates could be considerably lower than they might be next week.
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Under that, they pay the double-occupancy rate , and let the line try to match them with a roommate.
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Why should those living alone or elderly couples be paying as high rates as large wage-earning families?
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Traders say the bond will likely pay investors a coupon rate of 1. 3 percent or 1. 4 percent.
rent
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We will not be paying these higher rents .
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And they buy food and clothes and pay rent .
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I pay all the bills and my father has never paid any rent .
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He pays the rent by tending bar and working for a couple of unlicensed moving companies.
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His trips usually involve an overnight stay, and he pays the company rent for this occasional occupation.
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He makes barely enough money delivering handbills to businesses and homes to pay his rent and buy food and beer.
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Either she pays her rent or she can buy a property and pay £500 a month mortgage.
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Leaseholders generally paid part of their rent in kind, so that in many ways renting and sharecropping tenures were similar.
respect
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After he died, people started arriving to pay their respects , and cards and flowers came flooding through the door.
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No one had gone up to the casket itself to pay their respects .
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He shows no surprise that Fairfax has come to pay his respects after nearly fifty years.
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People have come by the thousands to pay respects .
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I had better go now and pay my respects to the petty bourgeoisie.
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As if playing their roles from an identical script, the men bowed and paid perfunctory respects in phrases punctuated with honorifics.
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He paused to pay his respects but the official was busy with his heap of files.
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Enough young men came to pay their respects , Burun was aware.
salary
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I'd forgotten that I pay you a salary !
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The three owners last year paid themselves salaries of $ 25, 000, not including undisclosed year-end bonuses.
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Although many officials and newspapers proposed that they be paid a modest salary , only the chief headmen received official remuneration.
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Thus the taxpayers who pay their salaries have to pay their taxes as well.
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And anyway, he pays their salaries .
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But if your business pays generous salaries to its other employees, your salary will look more reasonable.
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The thing to remember is that the client pays your salary and that makes you primarily responsible for the relationship.
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The government would collect $ 390 million from the industry in fiscal 1998 to pay the salaries and benefits of inspectors.
service
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Every hour we are paying for the services of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at an annual salary of £63,047.
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Under most HMOs, specialists are still paid per service provided.
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Society pays noisy lip service to monogamy but, in reality, encourages affairs.
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The state promised to match the counties dollar for dollar to pay for services including medication, psychotherapy and residential care.
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According to this, Mr Collingridge has never paid for the literature service , this month or any month.
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I begged her, telling her I would pay her for her services .
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Local authorities are expected to pay more than lip service to this requirement.
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MDExpert president Rachel Pomerantz said some insurance companies cover second opinions, though many would not pay for the services MDExpert offers.
sum
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Forest townships were compelled to pay the warden large sums of money if they did not attend Forest inquests at his summons.
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If it is less than £1.05 a week, it will be paid as a lump sum once a year.
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Each of the six members of the management committee was ordered to pay the sum of £861.
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Tim is doing a one-year cabinetmaking course with me and paying a princely sum for the pleasure of doing it.
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It is also possible to pay a lump sum premium to an insurance company which will pay out to the amount insured.
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But that much money will not be paid in one lump sum .
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They would happily pay out princely sums for completely new garments made from superior imported cloths.
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Clubs will pay sums of four figures as secret bonuses or salary top-ups to their star players.
tax
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Abolish the present inheritance tax and make recipients pay on gifts above a certain band as income.
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These taxes are paid by both employers and employees.
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He never shared the extreme supply-siders' faith that tax cuts would pay for themselves by stimulating faster growth.
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Individual workers similarly disappear into the underground economy where social charges and taxes are not paid .
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If taxes are needed to pay for government spending, why do we need government spending in the first place?
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A marginal tax rate is the tax paid on additional or incremental income.
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So, by the time tax is calculated and paid , rates could be considerably lower than they might be next week.
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But the Internal Revenue Service wants the properties for taxes not paid .
tribute
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I pay tribute to the work of the churches in my borough and other inner-London boroughs on this issue.
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I pay tribute to the Home Office for the way in which it dealt with immigrants who came to Northern Ireland.
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Here, some of Derek's follow drivers pay tribute to his skills.
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As colleagues lined up to pay tribute , speculation had already begun about who the party conference would pick as new leader.
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This year's Revival paid tribute to Jim, so they were very keen to have the Porsche along.
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Fenner Brockway paid tribute to the understanding and respect for individual conscience shown by the state.
visit
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In the spring of 1785 Leopold Mozart paid his son a visit lasting 10 weeks.
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Her brother paid a visit at her convent one day.
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President Bill Clinton paid a two-day visit to Northern Ireland with little expectation of achieving a breakthrough in the beleaguered political process.
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No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.
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Dolly was paying frequent visits to the house.
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When we met, Carol was paying a fleeting visit to Paris.
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But as the fire began to smoulder, Gore's sister Catherine paid an unexpected visit to her parents cottage.
wage
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It is not just a question of paying competitive wages .
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The lender releases money to the borrower, who then uses the money to pay wages and other expenses of the harvest.
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Added value pays wages and provides profits.
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They paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work and much freedom over what they played.
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Do they pay fair wages to all employees?
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Do they feel women should remain in marriages because their jobs do not pay a living wage ?
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By contrast disabled people and our organisations have called for staff to be paid proper wages .
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No one determines if the company is actually paying the prevailing wage .
■ VERB
agree
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The Village Association has agreed to pay the fees for two staff members to sit the mini-bus test.
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Even if the taxpayers agreed to pay the bill, could the economy afford it?
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Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000.
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A group of individuals bid for the Games and agreed to pay all the costs.
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Officials kept ministers in the dark and broke rules by agreeing to pay developers and consultants in advance.
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He agreed to pay a $ 375, 000 fine and make restitution to his victims totaling $ 625, 000.
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Entrepreneurs immediately became staunch patriots, and agreed to pay wages only at the official rate.
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Cigarette-makers agreed in 1998 to pay the states $ 252 billion to settle claims for smoking-related health costs.
expect
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Advisory services are more expensive than execution-only broking. Expect to pay higher dealing commissions.
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And expect to pay from the mid-teens to upward of $ 50, 000 for top-of-the-line, fully loaded models.
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I expected you to pay me for such attentions, my dear.
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The county was only expected to pay half that much for heating, Elrod said.
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That is, an invoice issued on 15 January would be expected to be paid no later than 28 February.
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Today, he is expected to get paid like one.
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It would be unrealistic to not expect to pay higher royalties in the foreseeable future.
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For this example, Mr Hemsley would expect to pay £2.75 / t, suggests Mr Dickie.
order
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He ordered Fulcher to pay £100 compensation and £100 costs.
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Pfaelzer also ordered Keating to pay $ 122 million in restitution to federal regulatory authorities.
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James Lower was ordered to pay £4 at once and then 5s a month.
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If the plaintiffs win, Simpson could be ordered to pay them millions in damages.
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Stevens and Edmunds were ordered to pay costs, estimated at more than £500,000.
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Meanwhile, in August he had been ordered to pay nearly F19,000,000 in tax arrears and associated fines.
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The mortgagor had been ordered to pay the mortgagee's costs which had been taxed at £60.
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Magistrates at Saxmundham ordered Nick to pay the debt with £12 costs.
refuse
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But Mrs Mooney is refusing to pay the fine.
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Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay .
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Because he had refused to be paid she couldn't ask him to come back again to deal with the seepage.
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Backus urged fellow Baptists simply to refuse to pay religious taxes; the collectors could not imprison them all.
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However, member states can still refuse to pay .
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After serving five months for refusing to pay his fine, Terry was released from prison in Atlanta.
require
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Again, separate life cover is required to pay off your loan in any eventuality.
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The tax laws prohibit you from trying to recover from your employees taxes that you were required to pay on their behalf.
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In addition to the fees set out above, you may be required to pay annual contributions towards the cost of your work.
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The president also would require tobacco companies to pay for a $ 150 million advertising crusade to stop young people from smoking.
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If your capital or income reduces you will be required to pay less.
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Quahanti was required to pay the $ 500 court fee, which appears to be within her means.
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Under that lease it is required to pay rents to the landlord.
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In the past, up to five forms were required if you paid more than $ 50 in wages per quarter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all expenses paid
back rent/taxes/pay etc
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A former landlord said she was still owed several thousand dollars in back rent.
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Dave Escott bought at the height of the boom, and any back rent will only add to his negative equity.
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He owes $ 10, 000 in back taxes.
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Homar sued for reinstatement of his job, back pay and money damages.
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I needed a release from the tax office showing that I owed no back taxes.
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Look, she said, he's left, bolted, owing three months' back rent.
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Next: What to do when you can not afford to pay back taxes.
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The Internal Revenue Service has been battling him for years for back taxes and penalties related to one venture.
basic salary/pay/pension etc
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Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.
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Firstly, women can only receive a pension based on their husband's contributions if he himself is in receipt of a basic pension.
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Graduated pension is increased annually in the same way as the basic pension.
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In money terms, the value is about 60 percent of the level of basic pension to which their husband is entitled.
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Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.
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There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries.
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Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children.
cost/pay/charge the earth
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A well planned, well made kitchen that doesn't cost the earth .
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But ... but it must cost the earth .
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He would miss seeing Harry and, besides, a weekend at some hotel would cost the earth .
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In Coventry Sir William Lyons produced wonderful engineering and style-but he didn't believe his cars should cost the earth .
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It is possible to pay the earth for beauty products.
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It would cost the earth , but it had to be safer than Nigel's Aston Martin.
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This is a flexible, well-designed machine which produces quality prints and doesn't cost the earth to print them.
crime doesn't pay
hourly pay/earnings/fees etc
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Average hourly earnings advanced a scant 1 cent in January, reaching $ 12. 06.
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It did, however, charge hourly fees that could add up quickly for heavy users.
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Mississippi has the lowest income per capita of any state, as well as the lowest hourly earnings for production workers.
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Mr Bennett, even at his hourly fees still an officer of the court, should be ashamed of himself.
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Within the Paid Employment Arena 3.2 Differential hourly earnings are the most obvious indicator of the patriarchal dividend.
not take/pay a blind bit of notice
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For six years, the Government have not taken a blind bit of notice of the Audit Commission's report.
paid in arrears
pay court to sb
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Elton had paid court to Miss Smith for a month, but had made no progress.
pay good money for sth
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I paid good money for that sofa, so it should last.
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And we'd say, we're paying good money for this.
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Consumer information is an asset which marketers are prepared to pay good money for.
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I paid good money for that, I said, can't I just have a last go on it?
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I paid good money for this vehicle and I won't have the likes of you doing what you're doing!
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It hardly surprised him that people were not too keen on paying good money for that.
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Why pay good money for the same effect?
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Women would pay good money for a glimpse of his guardsman's helmet.
pay heed to sth/take heed of sth
pay lip service to sb/sth
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It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
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Politicians pay lip service to crime.
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Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.
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The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement.
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The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
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They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.
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Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
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We need to stop paying lip service to them.
pay over the odds
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But do they make us pay over the odds ?
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If the hon. Gentleman believes otherwise, he is inviting electricity consumers to pay over the odds for their electricity.
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In the past Coleby had paid over the odds for things he wanted.
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It pays over the odds , and promotes rapidly too.
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The first, and most general, is the willingness of companies to pay over the odds when they acquire other companies.
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They still expected to get cheap baked beans, but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food.
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We could have guessed that Abraham would end up paying over the odds , but not as much as this.
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When a firm is mature, with a long track-record, investors are less likely to pay over the odds for it.
pay your last respects (to sb)
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At the graveside, a volley of shots ... before a Hercules flew overhead to pay its last respects .
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Many thousands paid their last respects to Dubcek at his funeral in Bratislava on Nov. 15.
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The Krays, Richardsons, and many more villains had come to pay their last respects .
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This was quite a normal thing at that time and neighbours would call to pay their last respects .
pay/bring dividends
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Among stocks, only the railroads paid dividends on a regular basis.
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And the strategy appears to be paying dividends .
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Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends .
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Fortified by his second election victory Adenauer adhered to his policies, which continued to pay dividends .
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If they are given a vote of confidence this season it could bring dividends .
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One thing is certain, as the competition increases, worldwide reputation for quality and service will pay dividends .
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Only three of the stocks on the list paid dividends , and the highest of those was 70 cents a share annually.
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Our advertising sales structures have been reshaped, and this is already paying dividends .
pay/settle an old score
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Oh, I heard plenty of rumours, but they were nearly all based on settling old scores.
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There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score.
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With the championship having been decided, this was likely to be their last chance to settle old scores.
pensionable pay/salary etc
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For 40 years' membership, members receive a pension of two thirds pensionable pay near retirement.
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The scheme provides a pension on retirement linked to final pensionable pay near that time.
severance pay/package
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He would not answer questions about the lack of severance pay.
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Ivy said the school did not buy out the contract but would negotiate some kind of severance package with Mumme.
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Laid-off employees, of which there have been 105 since January, each received a severance package and a computer.
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Of the $ 27 million charge, about $ 15 million relates to severance pay and plant closures.
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She received three months of severance pay.
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Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks' severance pay.
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The council also agreed to pay moving expenses and provide six months severance pay should they later fire him.
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There will, of course, be no severance pay, and a reference is out of the question.
there'll be hell to pay
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If he doesn't do it on time, there'll be hell to pay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pay by credit card at least ten days before departure.
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Although both of them worked hard, they couldn't make the business pay .
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Bartending can pay pretty well.
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Did she pay you for taking care of her kids?
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Have you paid for the tickets?
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Have you paid the rent yet?
▪
I like your new car - how much did you pay for it?
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I need £4.50 to pay the window cleaner.
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If I go out for a meal with my parents, they always pay .
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If you pay someone to work in your house, you have to pay Social Security taxes on the wages.
▪
If you earn below $6000, you pay no income tax.
▪
Jobs in areas that use mathematical skills, such as computer programming, tend to pay well.
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Miller refused to testify and paid for it by being labelled a communist.
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My company paid for me to go to evening classes.
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Of course you have to pay more if you want to travel in the summer.
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Our fixed rate savings account currently pays 6.5% interest.
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Please pay at the desk.
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Several fans tried to get in without paying.
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She paid $5,000 for three nights in a hotel in New York City.
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She drank far too much at the party and paid dearly for it the next day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because the insurance company was paying the defendant's costs, the contest would be unequal.
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Bribes were paid to railroad officials, of course, but other towns paid bigger ones.
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Budgeting loans are paid back by weekly deductions from benefit.
▪
He always paid the banks, and he paid all other incontestable bills on time.
▪
It showed revenue of A $ 641. 1 million and paid dividends of 32 cents a share in the year.
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She says she wouldn't pay it.
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She sent money to pay for my education.
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So if a premium is paid before 6 April 1993, it may be treated as having been paid during 1990/91.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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Thirty-two of the top 39 First Interstate executives received two-to three-times their annual pay as severance benefits.
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The cost of his $ 50, 000 Jaguar nearly equaled his annual pay .
back
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The Ministry of Finance has set aside funds to cover workers' back pay and the mines' debts.
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Homar sued for reinstatement of his job, back pay and money damages.
base
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Rises in base pay are losing their significance.
▪
Under such a system, workers have the opportunity to increase their base pay by learning to perform a variety of jobs.
▪
Regardless, this raise helps to keep their base pay ahead of, or at least on a par with, inflation.
▪
Linking base pay to knowledge and skill rather than position 4.
▪
Thus, Joe can increase his base pay by mastering more skill levels.
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There will be a way, however, for Joe to increase his base pay .
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This will likely be the only sure way they have of increasing their base pay level. 5.
▪
About 48 % of companies tie more raises to performance, not base pay .
basic
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The basic weekly pay for a recruit to the fire service is £243 - rising to £305 for qualified staff.
▪
The lighting engineer boosts his £15,000 basic pay with bonuses for being on call at Newcastle upon Tyne all through the night.
▪
But it was not included as basic pay when the club's accounts were published.
▪
They established considerable control over recruitment and promotion, and even collected special levies to supplement their basic pay .
▪
The solution is simple: high basic pay for high performance during limited hears.
▪
The unions' move leaves unchanged the central issues of basic pay and a pay formula.
equal
▪
Religious grumbles continued, but the Government's only serious defeat was over equal pay for women teachers.
▪
Most of all, they need equal pay and comparable worth.
▪
Now the women want equal pay .
▪
Article 6 reinforces the legal rights on equal pay obtained by women in this country, in 1970.
▪
In 1958 the Civil Service led the way towards equality by granting equal pay .
▪
Sixteen years later the same workers failed to get equal pay at an industrial tribunal under the 1983 amended Equal Pay Act.
extra
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Is there extra pay for overtime?
▪
Next fall, two of those teachers will be given extra pay to work here in the program Monday nights.
▪
They just endure it for extra pay or leave.
▪
As a result, employees who now put in, say, four 10-hour days no longer would earn extra overtime pay .
▪
If this threshold hurdle were cleared, then the teacher would have the extra pay for life.
▪
Dividing the extra pay by the extra risk of injury, indicates the implied compensation per injury.
▪
The nanny could be attracted by the extra pay , and her employer could like having you share the child-care expenses.
full
▪
They were immediately suspended on full pay pending a full inquiry.
▪
Admiral Klichugin remains on full pay behind a desk in Moscow.
▪
Two senior officials have been suspended on full pay pending a second internal inquiry.
▪
At the moment workers are at home on full pay - they're being assured their jobs are safe.
▪
Creffield was suspended on full pay until his conviction, whereupon he was dismissed with three months' notice.
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The officer corps was reduced by 50%, with many officers retiring on full pay .
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He was employed three months ago then told to stay away, on full pay .
gross
▪
In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance.
▪
It shows their tax code number and details of their gross pay and tax deducted to date.
high
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Young males in particular were keener on high pay and promotion than older people, and less concerned with security or job satisfaction.
▪
Industry offers a shot at higher pay , and higher risks.
▪
Unfortunately this is a commitment which is unlikely to be supported by higher pay or additional allowances.
▪
For most estimators, advancement takes the form of higher pay and prestige.
▪
Nothing in this plan would prevent trade unions negotiating higher rates of pay than these target levels.
▪
An analysis of those high pay deals would surely find that most were linked to high housing costs in the Home Counties.
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At present, crews typically rotate between 999 and routine work making it difficult to designate crews for higher pay .
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The shirt-maker gave up her job, and they both lived on the pattern-maker's relatively high pay .
low
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Those on low pay or receiving income support are exempt from all the charges.
▪
What they are eventually going to do is fire these people and have private industry hire them at lower pay .
▪
Secondly, how far can the low pay of women compared to men be explained by women's domestic ties?
▪
In many other sectors of low pay , however, the level of pay is reflected in low productivity.
▪
Under the new scheme, cabin-crew recruits will start on lower pay than existing staff.
▪
If not, why will not he accept the provisions of the social charter which would attack the problem of low pay ?
public
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One of the early acts of his Administration was an economy drive which included a horizontal slash in public pay .
sick
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A key element of the package was a reduction in guaranteed sick pay .
▪
Such reduced absenteeism is a social benefit in that it reduces public expenditure through the statutory sick-pay scheme.
▪
Kohl wanted to reduce sick pay to 80 percent of wages.
▪
The terms of any company sick pay scheme also need to be considered.
▪
Thus, one could consider such factors as hours, sick pay , pension schemes and holiday entitlements.
▪
Of course, employers' sick pay does not go on indefinitely.
▪
I remember when sick pay and conditions were added and when, under the wages councils, wage rates were raised.
weekly
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The basic weekly pay for a recruit to the fire service is £243 - rising to £305 for qualified staff.
▪
When we looked at the weekly pay that the workers had been getting in 1980, I was astounded.
▪
Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay .
▪
Redman regularly returned his weekly pay of 3s. 4d. to the fabric fund.
▪
Even with overtime £3 15s to £4 would be about their maximum weekly pay .
▪
In 1988, the average gross weekly pay for full-time work was £246 for men, and £164 for women.
▪
The final component in calculating compensation is weekly pay levels.
well
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In Smolensk guberniia 350 telegraph-workers went on strike for better pay and conditions on 29 April.
▪
Together, they won a landmark union contract for better pay and working conditions.
▪
The civil service unions chose this moment to strike for better pay .
▪
On 5 September the Rangoon police went on strike, demanding better pay .
■ NOUN
award
▪
In June 1990 during a strike of non-graduate teachers over their pay award , the government brought emergency regulations into force.
▪
Boots chief Sir James Blyth is among the bosses whose pay awards far outstripped rises in profits.
▪
In 1980, the procedure was a prelude to the obligatory pay award of the ministry of labour.
▪
But she criticised high pay awards to some council chief officials.
▪
She expected most of those who had applied for the pay award to be successful.
cheque
▪
Steve Maxwell Yes-the pay cheque would have been nice-although the elocution lessons would have been a bit tedious.
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Hall's main pay cheque comes from selling lambs which go to the lowlands as breeding stock.
▪
Harvard Securities recalled the duplicate pay cheque , as well as truncating the value of the next one.
claim
▪
The country was on a 3-day working week and the mineworkers were solidly in favour of strike action in support of their pay claim .
▪
The attempt to bolster the pay claim with the fear of closures failed.
▪
Equal pay claims were brought and lost by several groups of working women, bakers, confectioners and factory workers.
▪
Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers' pay claim .
cut
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With inflation running at 3.6 percent, that means they are being asked to accept an effective pay cut of 2.1 percent.
▪
But after getting released and not being active and taking a pay cut , it takes a toll.
▪
A third took rises below five percent, 14 percent got no rise and one percent took a pay cut .
▪
Worse, he had to take a thirty percent pay cut for working twice as many hours.
▪
Both he and Roberts, scrappy, even a bit shrewish here, took huge pay cuts to play opposite each other.
▪
The pay cuts were highlighted by researchers for for the Halifax Building Society who quizzed 4,000 youngsters aged 12 to 16.
▪
If Annan is sincere about reform, he should set an example by taking a pay cut .
day
▪
Settle things like hours, holidays, pay day etc. right at the beginning if possible.
▪
The company didn't have a regular pay day .
▪
Thirdly, volunteers never live till pay day .
▪
The reason why absenteeism was non-existent on Thursdays was not just because it happened to be pay day .
▪
In many trades it was close to a half-day as well as being pay day .
deal
▪
An analysis of those high pay deals would surely find that most were linked to high housing costs in the Home Counties.
▪
Uncertainty over performances at the South Bank Centre in London ended yesterday when management and unions agreed a pay deal .
▪
When have they ever had a reasonable pay deal which puts them level with the private sector?
▪
However, when she felt confident enough, she attempted to renegotiate her pay deal and was promptly fired.
differential
▪
Furthermore, I don't think the pay differentials in Grades 4 and above properly reflect the job's responsibilities.
▪
At issue is a vast pay differential .
▪
Under the Conservatives, then, pay differentials have widened.
▪
She has pledged to reduce pay differentials to single figures within five years by making pay more transparent through annual surveys.
▪
In this case pay differentials and inequality in society would be unaltered.
dispute
▪
This is illustrated by reference to teachers' responses to various externally sponsored innovations and the teachers' pay dispute of 1985-86.
▪
Industrial action and pay disputes dominated the headlines in the 1970s.
▪
The best result of the 1982 pay dispute was the nurses' pay review body.
▪
They were able to respond swiftly because they already have a secret ballot strike mandate over an ongoing pay dispute .
freeze
▪
A public sector pay freeze and a squeeze on benefits are thought to be among the main items in the package.
▪
While the Cabinet has yet to make final decisions, ministers seemed set to approve a pay freeze .
▪
Around one in eight of the survey sample reported a pay freeze for the workers concerned.
▪
Cuts in benefits and a public sector pay freeze are thought to be likely.
holiday
▪
Adults lose special rates for specific jobs, shift pay , holiday pay and unsocial hours pay.
▪
They will get holiday pay for eight hours and then overtime for additional hours.
▪
But some things never changed: there was no holiday pay and if they went went sick they lost their jobs.
▪
The men called to pick up their holiday pay and were told not to return in the New Year.
increase
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It gives the 3,200 staff a 7.6 percent pay increase .
▪
In return, the union says it will forgo pay increases for 1997.
▪
In previous years, their pay increases operated from April.
▪
Each worker learns every plant job, he says, and with each new job comes a pay increase .
▪
The current governor ran into a storm when it was revealed he had received a 17% pay increase in 1991.
▪
The two sides are also at odds over the timing of any pay increase the pilots may receive.
▪
Members of the police force had also demanded a pay increase of at least a 100 percent.
▪
The timing of pay increases has clearly become an influential factor in organizations' compensation programs.
level
▪
If women were evenly distributed across the spectrum of employment, their pay levels would be much closer to those of men.
▪
This will likely be the only sure way they have of increasing their base pay level . 5.
▪
Current pay levels are already below those offered by other space agencies.
▪
Beginning salaries were slightly higher in selected areas where the prevailing local pay level was higher.
▪
The final component in calculating compensation is weekly pay levels .
maternity
▪
You may also be entitled to departmental maternity pay during some of this period.
▪
What if we have our own maternity pay scheme?
▪
The rate of maternity pay will be no lower than the Statutory Sick Pay rate.
▪
An agreement was reached yesterday which represents a sensible balance on maternity pay .
overtime
▪
They receive no overtime pay , nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit.
▪
Would you add in overtime pay when listing your annual salary?
▪
But no: the firm decided instead to eliminate overtime pay for workers at its packaging and distribution center.
▪
Their bosses, who had to approve any overtime pay , wouldn't do it.
▪
As a result, employees who now put in, say, four 10-hour days no longer would earn extra overtime pay .
packet
▪
When my grandparents came over, the next pay packet from my uncle and my father went straight to my grandfather.
▪
Pay cuts imposed on workers have benefited the profits of corporations and the pay packets of better-off.
▪
The 1986 Finance Act introduced tax relief on regular giving to charities deducted from the giver's pay packet .
▪
She knew how much the pay packet meant to that middle-class family.
▪
Then after two or three months she had had enough so she didn't give her pay packet in at all.
▪
He'd been conned, as if he was an eighteen-year-old kid up from the suburbs with his first pay packet .
▪
Except for the workmen who were already in the pubs splashing their pay packets about.
▪
Mr Smith must learn that hitting the pay packet hits the housing market, and that hits the institutions.
performance
▪
The debacle over performance pay is just one example of the reality not living up to the rhetoric.
▪
I hope to announce that appointment before long. Performance pay will play a crucial part in delivering the citizens charter programme.
▪
The successful application of competition to increase value for money should be an important factor in determining performance pay .
▪
We will encourage the wider use of performance pay inside the Civil Service and in other parts of the public service.
phone
▪
It wasn't permitted to take incoming calls on the pay phone in the hallway of the hotel.
▪
Donaldson left Mrs Balanchine on the ward and found a pay phone to call his office.
▪
The closest one she can find is a pay phone just outside Mac Court.
▪
When Lucy came out, Josie was on the pay phone at the corridor's end.
▪
I could flip through a fifty-page state supreme court decision on deadline and call in a story from a pay phone .
▪
There was a pay phone on the wall next to the hall stand.
raise
▪
For workers, bigger pay raises undoubtedly seemed overdue, and something to celebrate.
▪
Hough, 35, advocates making sacrifices in the district, such as not giving teacher pay raises .
▪
The first shot was a pay raise from $ 15, 000 to $ 24, 500.
▪
Republicans are likely to go along with the proposed pay raise amount.
▪
The pay raise also would cost agencies about $ 2. 2 million in fiscal 1998.
▪
Each year, instead of percentage pay raises , teachers could be compensated with stuff.
▪
They are considering 1 percent pay raises and $ 500 across-the-board annual pay hikes to take effect in April 1997.
▪
At the 80 % level, employees get a 3 % pay raise .
rate
▪
The legion lost its power to recruit foreigners, and the special pay rates that rewarded tougher conditions.
▪
Equal opportunity legislation exists in most advanced countries but this is not yet reflected in equal pay rates .
▪
It is not clear whether more money will buy an increased supply of services or simply finance higher pay rates .
▪
The decision to allow trusts to set their own pay rates has meant that pay bargaining is now becoming devolved.
▪
Overtime camouflages low pay rates , inefficiency, poor management and corrupt trade union practices.
▪
To provide records of work and attendance and the pay rates of all members of staff. 2.
▪
Part-timers may be on lower pay rates than full-time workers.
redundancy
▪
The tribunal ruled that all three women were entitled to redundancy pay .
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Thus the absence does not reduce accrued rights to redundancy pay or to notice entitlement.
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If Sandie does not want it she will still get redundancy pay .
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The last time I saved any money was my redundancy pay , but that soon went.
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His redundancy pay and bar work supported him while he did this.
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As a result, a volunteer remains entitled to his statutory right to redundancy pay .
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The man from Bicester who blew his redundancy pay on a Rolls Royce.
review
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Moreover, we have agreed in full to the pay review body's recommendations on how to fund the doctors' new contracts.
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We will retain the pay review bodies.
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To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers.
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When a piece of work is late they enquire as to their prey's health, and mention an upcoming pay review .
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We look forward with interest to what the pay review body will report in January.
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The best result of the 1982 pay dispute was the nurses' pay review body.
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The pay review body with its commitment to performance-related pay is immensely important.
rise
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My worry is that the clamp on public sector pay rises may spark a winter of discontent.
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Directors gave themselves an average five percent pay rise in the past year, according to a survey yesterday.
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Pro-active means giving your employees a pay rise before the unions demand it.
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On March 17, a further decree announced improved material provision for servicemen, including pay rises and housing.
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This was just a little added bonus - Alan also received a 27 percent pay rise .
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The most important benefits were adequate job provision, regular pay rises and state welfare services.
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However, especially at primary level, salaries remain low, and pay rises have not kept up with inflation.
scale
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Recite my entire career history complete with qualifications, pay scale , dates of promotions and dossier of official merit-ratings and reprimands?
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Especially at its lower end of the pay scale , the job world does not reward people adequately.
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Similarly, we might consider whether educational qualifications or length of service are not also components of pay scales in Western companies.
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Others are bumping up pay scales to stop staff being poached and to attract crews.
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Structures have been used to implement pay scales rather than principles of organisational design.
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One approach to tackling this issue would be to encourage firms to promulgate, promote and publish pay scales and pay decisions.
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They are also paying top officials 10% over the normal pay scales .
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Aurigny's pay scales have traditionally been below the industry average.
settlement
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Lamont limits public sector pay to 1 Public sector pay settlements have been limited to a maximum of one point five percent.
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In 1981 conflict over pay settlements led to an unprecedented civil service strike.
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The inflation figures, and even pay settlements , have been less awful than might have been expected.
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The Government introduced incentive allowances for teachers in 1987 when it removed the profession's bargaining rights and imposed a pay settlement .
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In manufacturing industry, pay settlements were down from an average of 9 percent. to 5.5 percent.
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Other pay settlements for powerful groups of workers have been preceded by promises to adjust the limits if necessary.
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The continuation order has no bearing on arrangements for next year's pay settlement .
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The pay settlement had changed her mind.
tribute
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As well as his family, dozens of students were there to hear the college's vicar pay tribute to their friend.
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And they heard the Prime Minister pay tribute to them when they sat in on Question Time.
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earn
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So to do your job, and earn your pay , you really have to be pressing all the time.
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As a result, employees who now put in, say, four 10-hour days no longer would earn extra overtime pay .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all expenses paid
back rent/taxes/pay etc
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A former landlord said she was still owed several thousand dollars in back rent.
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Dave Escott bought at the height of the boom, and any back rent will only add to his negative equity.
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He owes $ 10, 000 in back taxes.
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Homar sued for reinstatement of his job, back pay and money damages.
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I needed a release from the tax office showing that I owed no back taxes.
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Look, she said, he's left, bolted, owing three months' back rent.
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Next: What to do when you can not afford to pay back taxes.
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The Internal Revenue Service has been battling him for years for back taxes and penalties related to one venture.
basic salary/pay/pension etc
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Blackwell and Deane received a basic salary plus poundage according to the level of military spending.
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Firstly, women can only receive a pension based on their husband's contributions if he himself is in receipt of a basic pension.
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Graduated pension is increased annually in the same way as the basic pension.
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In money terms, the value is about 60 percent of the level of basic pension to which their husband is entitled.
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Managers may earn bonuses up to 25 percent of their basic salary in some hotels.
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There is a generous stock-option scheme, and performance-related pay that can, in some cases, double basic salaries.
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Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children.
cost/pay/charge the earth
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A well planned, well made kitchen that doesn't cost the earth .
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But ... but it must cost the earth .
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He would miss seeing Harry and, besides, a weekend at some hotel would cost the earth .
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In Coventry Sir William Lyons produced wonderful engineering and style-but he didn't believe his cars should cost the earth .
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It is possible to pay the earth for beauty products.
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It would cost the earth , but it had to be safer than Nigel's Aston Martin.
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This is a flexible, well-designed machine which produces quality prints and doesn't cost the earth to print them.
crime doesn't pay
dock sb's wages/pay/salary
hourly pay/earnings/fees etc
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Average hourly earnings advanced a scant 1 cent in January, reaching $ 12. 06.
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It did, however, charge hourly fees that could add up quickly for heavy users.
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Mississippi has the lowest income per capita of any state, as well as the lowest hourly earnings for production workers.
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Mr Bennett, even at his hourly fees still an officer of the court, should be ashamed of himself.
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Within the Paid Employment Arena 3.2 Differential hourly earnings are the most obvious indicator of the patriarchal dividend.
not take/pay a blind bit of notice
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For six years, the Government have not taken a blind bit of notice of the Audit Commission's report.
paid in arrears
pay court to sb
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Elton had paid court to Miss Smith for a month, but had made no progress.
pay good money for sth
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I paid good money for that sofa, so it should last.
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And we'd say, we're paying good money for this.
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Consumer information is an asset which marketers are prepared to pay good money for.
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I paid good money for that, I said, can't I just have a last go on it?
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I paid good money for this vehicle and I won't have the likes of you doing what you're doing!
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It hardly surprised him that people were not too keen on paying good money for that.
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Why pay good money for the same effect?
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Women would pay good money for a glimpse of his guardsman's helmet.
pay heed to sth/take heed of sth
pay lip service to sb/sth
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It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
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Politicians pay lip service to crime.
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Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.
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The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement.
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The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.
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They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.
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Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
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We need to stop paying lip service to them.
pay over the odds
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But do they make us pay over the odds ?
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If the hon. Gentleman believes otherwise, he is inviting electricity consumers to pay over the odds for their electricity.
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In the past Coleby had paid over the odds for things he wanted.
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It pays over the odds , and promotes rapidly too.
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The first, and most general, is the willingness of companies to pay over the odds when they acquire other companies.
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They still expected to get cheap baked beans, but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food.
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We could have guessed that Abraham would end up paying over the odds , but not as much as this.
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When a firm is mature, with a long track-record, investors are less likely to pay over the odds for it.
pay your last respects (to sb)
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At the graveside, a volley of shots ... before a Hercules flew overhead to pay its last respects .
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Many thousands paid their last respects to Dubcek at his funeral in Bratislava on Nov. 15.
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The Krays, Richardsons, and many more villains had come to pay their last respects .
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This was quite a normal thing at that time and neighbours would call to pay their last respects .
pay/bring dividends
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Among stocks, only the railroads paid dividends on a regular basis.
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And the strategy appears to be paying dividends .
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Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends .
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Fortified by his second election victory Adenauer adhered to his policies, which continued to pay dividends .
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If they are given a vote of confidence this season it could bring dividends .
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One thing is certain, as the competition increases, worldwide reputation for quality and service will pay dividends .
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Only three of the stocks on the list paid dividends , and the highest of those was 70 cents a share annually.
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Our advertising sales structures have been reshaped, and this is already paying dividends .
pay/settle an old score
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Oh, I heard plenty of rumours, but they were nearly all based on settling old scores.
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There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score.
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With the championship having been decided, this was likely to be their last chance to settle old scores.
pensionable pay/salary etc
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For 40 years' membership, members receive a pension of two thirds pensionable pay near retirement.
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The scheme provides a pension on retirement linked to final pensionable pay near that time.
put paid to sth
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But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.
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But Travis McKenna had put paid to that by being particularly vigilant.
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Hitler's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations.
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It rather put paid to any idea she'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though.
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Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.
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People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time.
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This was the cause of his deafness, which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics.
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Yet an inflamed shin almost put paid to Sampras in the first week.
rob Peter to pay Paul
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For example, one contributor argued that mainstream funding for Whiterock College was a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
severance pay/package
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He would not answer questions about the lack of severance pay.
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Ivy said the school did not buy out the contract but would negotiate some kind of severance package with Mumme.
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Laid-off employees, of which there have been 105 since January, each received a severance package and a computer.
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Of the $ 27 million charge, about $ 15 million relates to severance pay and plant closures.
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She received three months of severance pay.
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Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks' severance pay.
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The council also agreed to pay moving expenses and provide six months severance pay should they later fire him.
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There will, of course, be no severance pay, and a reference is out of the question.
there'll be hell to pay
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If he doesn't do it on time, there'll be hell to pay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What's the pay ?" "About $10 an hour."
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For most fast-food workers, the pay is around $5 an hour.
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Joe's been receiving sick pay since the accident.
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The worst thing about being a nurse is the low pay .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For four years running, the Government's teachers' pay committee has reported that teachers' morale has never been lower.
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If entitlements are exceeded, the system will issue the relevant warning message and stop pay .
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If women were evenly distributed across the spectrum of employment, their pay levels would be much closer to those of men.
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Most of all, they need equal pay and comparable worth.
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Staff unions and many councillors last year attacked large pay increases for senior staff in all departments.
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The new chief executive acknowledged he would be taking a pay cut.
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To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.