Pay
Pay verb - To give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received.
Spend money and pay are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spend money" instead a verb "Pay".
Spend money
Pay and spend money are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pay" instead a verb phrase "Spend money".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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You can pay Clyde $2.00 for a tip/rumor, only for him to give you the tip of "Never spend money on tips and rumors." You can also invest twenty dollars in the bank.
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Still, Adams did manage to pay off almost two thirds of the national debt in just four years - mostly, though, because the Jacksonians would not let him spend money on anything and paying off the debt was the only option.
Source: Useful Notes / John Quincy Adams -
Publishing tends to be an industry of marginal profits (the book that sells has to pay for the ten that flop) so when you have an author who sells thousands or millions of copies on their name alone, why would you spend money editing their work?
Source: Protection from Editors
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