Pay
Pay verb - To give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received.
Taking over is an antonym for pay.
Taking over
Taking over noun - Acquisition of property by descent or by will.
Both terms in one sentence
- Get Shorty conflates this trope with organized crime, as a loan shark's enforcer winds up taking over a movie when the producer can't pay his debt.
Source: Horrible Hollywood -
His main villainous act in-story is taking over Santa Claus's toy factory, encasing toys in his invention, and forcing children to pay for them.
Source: The Big Bad Wolf - But The People, an international corporation dedicated to studying undeath and vampires and taking over the world will pay certain individuals to be infected, if they can have the vampire once it's been made.
Source: Curse That Cures
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