Make even
Pay
Pay verb - To give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received.
Both terms in one sentence
- When he learns that Drek is actually a Corrupt Corporate Executive who deliberately polluted the Blarg homeworld in order to force the Blarg to pay him a fortune for the new one and is planning to do the same thing all over again to make even more money, he reacts with dumb-founded disgust.
Source: Disappointed by the Motive -
After centuries of living as what amounts to murderous nocturnal bandits, they learned in the Age of Discovery that they could pay humans for well guarded rooms to sleep in - or to take their money and do things with it to make even more money.
Source: Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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