Earn
Earn verb - To receive as return for effort.
Paying
Paying adjective - Yielding a profit.
Earn is an antonym for paying in topics: profit, make amends, services, be advantageous, get revenge.
Both words in one sentence
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Most games have two basic units of currency: One you can earn by playing, and another you can only get through Facebook Credits (or, if you're playing it on another site, paying into the game).
Source: Allegedly Free Game - A TV report on Kwari, an MMO FPS in which you would actually earn real money for frags (at the cost of paying for ammunition via microtransactions) and other stuff.
- After level 10, your character receives experience debt for dying; half the experience you earn goes toward "paying off" the debt.
Source: Death Is a Slap on the Wrist
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Paying and Earn. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/earn/paying
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