lay; expenses, disbursement; prime cost &c (price) 812; circulation;
run upon a bank.
payment &c 807 [Money paid]; pay &c (remuneration) 973; bribe &c
973; fee, footing, garnish; subsidy; tribute; contingent, quota;
donation &c 784.
pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment.
investment; purchase &c 795.
V. expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante
up; pony up [U.S.]; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings,
untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out [Slang], fork out [Slang],
fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money.
run up debts, run up bills (debt) 806.
fee &c (reward) 973; pay one's way &c (pay) 807; subscribe &c
(give) 784; subsidize.
Adj. expending, expended &c v.; sumptuary.
Phr. vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae [Lat.] [Cicero].