Pay and Rig

Pay

Pay verb - To give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received.

Rig and pay are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rig" instead a verb "Pay".

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

Rig

Rig verb - To provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity.
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Synonyms for Rig

Pay and rig are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pay" instead a verb "Rig".

Nearby Word: rigging

How words are described

good good pay good rig
full full pay full rig
special special pay special rig
standard standard pay standard rig
Other adjectives: small, entire, big, decent.

Common collocations

time pay time rig time
way pay way rig way
ticket pay ticket rig ticket

Both words in one sentence

  • Fixing the Game: Gino convinces the casino to rig a roulette game so that Jerry can get the experience of winning, promising to pay back whatever Jerry wins.
  • Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot In later chapters of NCIS fanfic Shards to a Whole, small discrepancies in the totals of military pay accounts → embezzlement and corruption within CGI (Coast Guard Investigations) → a decades-old conspiracy to rig US Presidential and Congressional elections.
  • Series / Alice (1976) Vandalism Backfire: Mel attempts to rig his own contest to fail, by ripping up the only "E" in the "Spell out 'M-E-L-S' for the grand prize" drawing (after raising the grand prize offering to counter a competitor's contest, to a level he couldn't pay if he wanted to).
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