- pay dividends
- if something you do pays dividends, it causes good results at a time in the future.
Plenty of practice early in the season will pay dividends later on.
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pay dividends — phrase to bring you a lot of benefit Thorough lesson planning always pays dividends. Thesaurus: to be advantageous and yield benefitssynonym Main entry: pay * * * pay ˈdividends idiom to produce great advantages or profits … Useful english dictionary
pay dividends — ► if something you do pays dividends, it has good results at a time in the future: »The company found that the extra training really did pay dividends. Main Entry: ↑pay … Financial and business terms
pay dividends — index disperse (disseminate) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
pay dividends — If something you do pays dividends, it brings advantages or rewards at a later date. The time he spent learning English paid dividends when he started looking for a job … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
pay dividends — to bring you a lot of benefit Thorough lesson planning always pays dividends … English dictionary
pay dividends — to produce good results … Idioms and examples
pay — [n] earnings from employment allowance, bacon*, bread*, commission, compensation, consideration, defrayment, emoluments, fee, hire*, honorarium, income, indemnity, meed, payment, perquisite, pittance, proceeds, profit, reckoning, recompensation,… … New thesaurus
pay — ▪ I. pay pay 1 [peɪ] noun [uncountable] the money someone receives for the job they do: • She got the job, but it meant a big pay cut. • an increase in hourly pay • All I want is a full day s work for a full day s pay … Financial and business terms
pay — pay1 [ peı ] (present participle paying; past tense and past participle paid [ peıd ] ) verb *** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to give money in order to buy something: pay for: Let me pay for dinner. pay someone for something: Can I pay you for … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
pay — 1 /peI/ verb past tense and past participle paid /peId/ 1 GIVE MONEY (I, T) to give someone money for something you have bought, or for something they have done for you: They ran off without paying. | Didn t pay em a penny, just asked em to do it … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
