Number and Pay

Number

Number noun - A character used to represent a mathematical value.

Pay and number are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pay" instead a noun "Number".

Nearby Words: numberless, numbered, numbering

Pay

Pay noun - The money paid regularly to a person for labor or services.

Number and pay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Number" instead a noun "Pay".

Nearby Words: payment, paid, paying, payable, payout

How words are described

good good number good pay
high high number high pay
low low number low pay
equal equal number equal pay
Other adjectives: certain, considerable, small, actual, large, big, great, little, lower, decent, final, significant, highest, next, smaller, minimum, higher.

Common collocations

mind number mind pay mind
call number call pay call
times number times pay times

Both words in one sentence

  • Another story involved Toronto starting a pay-per-use system for city parks, which got a number of angry calls.
  • Useful Notes / Scotland Scotland has a number of independent wrestling groups - including the Scottish Wrestling Alliance (SWA) who famously got a pay-off from WWE when the latter launched NXT, a name which was already used by the SWA for a similar concept.
  • The various governments of the world can pay exorbitant fees for a small number of guns, but the Guild ruthlessly suppresses anyone's attempts to make their own.
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