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paying forward

paying forward is the present participle and gerund of pay forward.

Meaning of pay forward

Verb

pay forward (third-person singular simple present pays forward, present participle paying forward, simple past and past participle paid forward)

  1. (transitive) Having been the recipient of help or a good deed, to propagate goodwill by helping another person in turn.
    Synonyms:
    pay it forward

Questions about paying forward

What is paying forward the present participle and gerund of?
Paying forward is the present participle and gerund of pay forward.

Words near paying forward in the dictionary

  1. paying dearly
  2. paying dividends
  3. paying down
  4. paying for itself
  5. paying for one's whistle
  6. paying forward
  7. paying good money after bad
  8. paying heed
  9. paying homage to
  10. paying home
  11. paying it forward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paying forward (page history and authors); pay forward (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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