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pays forward

pays forward is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pays forward

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

Words near pays forward in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pays 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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