Net
Net noun - The amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received.
Usage example: his net for the year was about 60% of his total income
Pay and net are semantically related in money topic. In some cases you can use "Pay" instead the word "Net" as a verb or a noun.
Nearby Word: netting
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good net | good pay |
| special | special net | special pay |
| public | public net | public pay |
| regular | regular net | regular pay |
| Other adjectives: small, entire, large, big, little, extra, double, bigger. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In the sister series Villain.net, the protagonist doesn't need to pay (with money, anyway), but he can only use four at a time and the powers have an unspecified time limit.
Source: Holding Back the Phlebotinum -
You can often net more money from a mission with a hefty salvage haul than the contractor agreed to pay you for mission success (first dibs on salvage rights being a way to pay for merc services without actually paying).
Source: Video Game / MechWarrior - Similarly to TNA's time with Fox Sports Net, WWE turning Monday Night Raw and its pay per view programing PG reduced their reliance on this trope.
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Pay and Net. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/net/pay
Net & Pay. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/net/pay>.
Pay or Net. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/net/pay.
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