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pays a visit

pays a visit is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pay a visit.

Meaning of pay a visit

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To visit.
    • In the succeeding years I paid many more visits to Scotland; this was made easy even for those of modest means, by that wonderful institution, the "Inverness Tourist." For £3 one could get a ticket from London to Inverness and back with a wide choice of routes, […].1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic) To go to the toilet.

Questions about pays a visit

What is pays a visit the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pays a visit is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pay a visit.

Words near pays a visit in the dictionary

  1. payrolling
  2. payrolls
  3. payrun
  4. payruns
  5. pays
  6. pays a visit
  7. pays attention
  8. pays back
  9. pays back in someone's own coin
  10. pays d'état
  11. Pays de la Loire

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