Balance and Pay

Balance

Balance verb - To give what is owed for.

Usage example: she had to balance her account with the video store before being allowed to rent more movies

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Pay and balance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pay" instead the word "Balance" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: balanced, balancing, balancer

Pay verb - To give what is owed for.

Usage example: you ought to pay that bill before it's overdue

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Balance and pay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Balance" instead the word "Pay" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: payment, paid, paying, payable, payout

good	good balance	good pay
nice	nice balance	nice pay
best	best balance	best pay
equal	equal balance	equal pay
Other adjectives: better, reasonable, poor, entire, great, intended.

After losing two in one particularly suicidal battle his boss informs him that his liability balance is so far in the red that it'll take him 67 years to pay it off.

Source: Leeroy Jenkins
Of course, for purposes of game balance you have to pay points of each Extra Life.

Source: Never Found the Body
If you pay attention, the Terminator actually fired and missed Sarah due to the impact of Kyle's shot throwing off his balance by a few inches.

Source: Film / The Terminator

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