資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pay \Pay\, n.
1. Satisfaction; content. --Chaucer.
2. An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or
services performed; salary or wages for work or service;
compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a
clerk; the pay of a soldier.
Where only merit constant pay receives. --Pope.
There is neither pay nor plunder to be got.
--L'Estrange.
{Full pay}, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay;
especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or
military officers of a certain rank, without deductions.
{Half pay}. See under {Half}.
{Pay day}, the day of settlement of accounts.
{Pay dirt} (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the
miner. [Western U.S.]
{Pay office}, a place where payment is made.
{Pay roll}, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment,
with the amounts due.