PAYS UP Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

pays up

verb

present tense third-person singular of pay up

as in pays

to give what is owed for for once our bills are all paid up

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Recent Examples of pays up Phillips’ job, which pays up to $264,000 a year, could be the first test. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026 By contrast, Social Security pays up to $62,172 a year in 2026. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 16 July 2026 Under current rules, each venue pays up to $15 million annually. — Christopher Damien, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026 The SoonerSafe Rebate Program pays up to 75% of the cost of a new safe room, up to $3,000. — Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman, 6 Mar. 2026 Norton, his interest piqued, pays up to discover there is more like it at Ox Lake, 600 miles farther north in the open tundra known as the Barren Grounds. — Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2026 In the most severe cases, the state pays up to $86,000 annually for a person’s home care, Reiskin said. — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025

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The government created a national preventive care program decades ago and gave every citizen a right to regular checkups, which gave clinics a reason to buy expensive machines, which brought the volume that pays for the expensive machines.

— Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The Avon Historical Society pays the liability for the inside of the building and the structural repairs, like the roof, are the town’s responsibility.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026

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The operator model pays off when the delivery network is complex enough that the decisions being made inside it—or being made poorly, or not at all—are materially affecting cost and customer experience.

— Nishith Rastogi, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
That's why saving money on some parts of your vacation without compromising on the overall quality of the trip definitely pays off.

— Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 21 July 2026

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