Fire
Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.
Pay
Pay verb - To provide with a paying job.
Usage example: pay someone to mow the lawn for the summer
How words are described
| high | high fire | high pay |
| full | full fire | full pay |
| fast | fast fire | fast pay |
| regular | regular fire | regular pay |
| Other adjectives: heavy, small, actual, large, big, little, terrible, final, eternal, random, double. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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His wife's stance is depicted as a fire-place, usually a symbol of home, and fire as a symbol of truth, indicating there would be a high cost to pay for the war.
Source: Film / Lincoln - Daniel Bryan at Over the Limit 2012 was a sure-fire classic; unfortunately, the pay-per-view is remembered instead for the Epic Fail of a main event between John Cena vs.
Source: Overshadowed by Controversy - It lasted 15 years and the Originals still pay remembrance by having annual 15-day long live-fire "reenactments".
Source: Fanfic / The Universiad
Cite this Source
Pay and Fire. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fire/pay
Fire & Pay. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fire/pay>.
Pay or Fire. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fire/pay.
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