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pays the ultimate price

pays the ultimate price is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pay the ultimate price.

Meaning of pay the ultimate price

Verb

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

  1. To die as a result of a fatal choice or decision, or because of deep commitments.
    • On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the...2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3

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Pays the ultimate price is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pay the ultimate price.

Words near pays the ultimate price in the dictionary

  1. pays the freight
  2. pays the penalty
  3. pays the piper
  4. pays the price
  5. pays the rent
  6. pays the ultimate price
  7. pays through the nose
  8. pays to play
  9. pays towards
  10. pays up
  11. pays with one's life

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