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pay for

pay for is the misspelling of pay-for.

Meaning of pay-for

Noun

pay-for (plural pay-fors)

  1. (US) Something which is used to pay for a bill, such as an increase in taxes.
    • The government is debating whether to include various pay-fors in order to fund the new infrastructure bill.

Forms of pay for

pluralpay fors

Questions about pay for

What is pay for the misspelling of?
Pay for is the misspelling of pay-for.

Words near pay for in the dictionary

  1. pay days
  2. pay dearly
  3. pay dirt
  4. pay dividends
  5. pay down
  6. pay for
  7. pay for itself
  8. pay for one's whistle
  9. pay for play
  10. pay fors
  11. pay forward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pay for (page history and authors); pay-for (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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