Drop
Drop verb - To hand over or use up in payment.
Usage example: I dropped $50 on these shoes
Pay
Pay verb - To hand over or use up in payment.
Usage example: rock fans were willing to pay enormous sums to get into the concert
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good drop | good pay |
| full | full drop | full pay |
| low | low drop | low pay |
| nice | nice drop | nice pay |
| Other adjectives: special, long, better, regular, certain, standard, considerable, small, actual, entire, large, big, collective, final, extra, significant, several. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- One episode of Barney Miller has the kidnappers demanding that a police officer drop off the ransom while running in the park, which the victim's family decides to pay.
Source: Ransom Drop - Final Fantasy X had Dark Matter, which was not only a very rare drop from bosses you had to pay to fight, but also needed in obscene amounts to craft armour with Ribbon.
Source: Rare Random Drop - Justified in the case of some scholarships; a B or C average could literally be synonymous with losing a scholarship and having to drop out due to being unable to pay for school.
Source: The B Grade
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