Paying
/ˈpeɪ.ɪŋ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 payment
"It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of pay form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 for which money is paid wordnet
- 2 yielding a fair profit wordnet
Example
More examples"It's quite plain that you haven't been paying attention."
Etymology
From pay + -ing.