paying (root: pay)

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: pay=ing
• COUNT in NET: 16 in 16 verses (in OT : 12 in 12 verses) (in NT : 4 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

paying, n. 

 the act of paying money.  [WordNet 1.5]

paying, adj. 

•  yielding material gain or profit; as, paying investments.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  providing a salary for work performed; as, a paying job.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

paying

acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, advantageous, amortization, amortizement, banausic, binder, breadwinning, cash, cash payment, clearance, compensating, compensative, compensatory, debt service, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, fat, gainful, good, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, installment, installment plan, interest payment, liquidation, lucrative, moneymaking, monthly payments, never-never, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, prepayment, productive, profitable, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, remittance, remunerative, reparative, repaying, retirement, retributive, retributory, rewardful, rewarding, satisfaction, satisfying, settlement, sinking-fund payment, solvent, sound, spot cash, weekly payments, well-paying, worthwhile

ROGET THESAURUS

paying

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

Payment

N payment, defrayment, discharge, acquittance, quittance, settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement, acknowledgment, release, receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands, voucher, salary, compensation, remuneration (reward), repayment, reimbursement, retribution, pay, money paid, ready money, stake, remittance, installment, payer, liquidator, pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead, paying, paid, owing nothing, out of debt, all straight, unowed, never indebted, to the tune of, on the nail, money down.