paying
Definition
- Adjective:
- Yielding a financial return or profit: Describes an activity, investment, or venture that generates money or a positive financial gain.
- Involving payment or compensation: Describes a job, position, or work for which one receives monetary compensation.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- She finally found a paying job after months of searching. (This describes a job that provides a salary.)
- He invested in several paying ventures last year. (This describes investments that yield a profit.)
- The online store became a paying business within its first year. (This describes a business that generates revenue.)
Advanced Usage
- "paying guest": A lodger who pays rent to live in someone's home.
- They have two paying guests to help with the mortgage.
- "paying attention": (Note: This is a common collocation where "paying" functions as part of the verb phrase "to pay attention," meaning to focus or listen carefully.) While "paying" here is a verb form, the adjective "paying" is not typically used to modify "attention" on its own.
Variants and Related Words
- Pay (verb): To give money in exchange for goods or services, or to settle a debt.
- Paid (adjective): Having received money for work; also describes a position that is not voluntary.
- She is a paid employee.
- Payment (noun): The act of paying or the amount that is paid.
- Repaying (verb/adjective): The act of paying back money that was borrowed.
Synonyms
- Remunerative: Providing payment; profitable.
- Profitable: Yielding financial gain or benefit.
- Gainful: Providing a gain, especially financial.
- Salaried: Receiving or characterized by a salary.
Related Phrases
- To pay off: (Phrasal verb) To yield a positive result or profit; to settle a debt in full.
- All his hard work finally paid off. (Meaning it yielded a good result.)
- They plan to pay off their loan early.
- To pay out: (Phrasal verb) To disburse or distribute money, especially a large sum.
- The insurance company will pay out on the claim.
Related Idioms
- It pays to be...: It is advantageous or profitable to possess a certain quality.
- In this industry, it pays to be well-connected.
- Pay your way: To cover your own expenses.
- From a young age, he was expected to pay his way.
Adjective
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for which money is paid
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a paying job
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remunerative work
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salaried employment
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stipendiary services
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yielding a fair profit
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