Pay \Pay\, n.
   1. Satisfaction; content. --Chaucer.
      
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   2. An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or
      services performed; salary or wages for work or service;
      compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a
      clerk; the pay of a soldier.
      
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            Where only merit constant pay receives. --Pope.
      
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            There is neither pay nor plunder to be got.
                                                  --L'Estrange.
      
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   {Full pay}, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay;
      especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or
      military officers of a certain rank, without deductions.
      

   {Half pay}. See under {Half}.

   {Pay day}, the day of settlement of accounts.

   {Pay dirt} (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the
      miner. [Western U.S.]

   {Pay office}, a place where payment is made.

   {Pay roll},
      (a) a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with
          the amounts due; now usually one word, {payroll}.
      (b) the total sum of money which is paid to all employees
          on payday.
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