pay out
Verb
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Verb
pay out
- To distribute money; to disburse
- (nautical) To slacken a rope by lengthening it; to allow a rope to run out.
- To repay, take revenge
- 1981, P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins, revised edition, chapter 7,
- The pigeon, very offended, flew back to the Bird Woman and, to pay out Mary Poppins, stuck the rose in the ribbon of the Bird Woman's hat.
- 1981, P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins, revised edition, chapter 7,
- Russian: выпла́чивать
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