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Pay in advance: Earnest, handsel, deposit, prepayment, entrance-fee, entrance. Contribution, donation, subscription, deposit, contingent, dole, quota. Investment, purchase, etc. (see 795), alms (see 748). (Verbs). To expend, spend, pay, disburse, lay out, lay or pay down, to cash, to come down with, to fork out, bleed, make up a sum, to invest, sink money, prepay, to tip. (Phrases). To unloose the purse-strings; fork out the money; to pay the piper; to pay through the nose. (Adjectives). Expending, etc., expended, etc., sumptuary. Income, revenue, rent, rental, rent-roll, rentage, return, proceeds, premium, bonus, gate-money, royalty. Pension, annuity, jointure, dower, dowry, dot, alimony. Emoluments, perquisites, recompense, etc. (see 809), sinecure. (Verbs). To receive, pocket, bag, etc.; see Take (785 and 789), to draw from, derive from. To bring in, yield, return, afford, pay, accrue. (Phrases). To get what will make the pot boil; keep the wolf from the door; bring grist to the mill. (Adjectives). Receiving, etc., received, etc. Gainful, profitable, remunerative, lucrative, advantageous, etc. 775. Book-keeping, audit, double entry, reckoning. An accountant, auditor, actuary, book-keeper. (Verbs). To keep accounts, enter, post, credit, debit, carry over; balance, make up accounts, take stock, audit. To falsify, garble, cook, or doctor accounts. Dues, duty, toll, tax, supertax, rate, cess, levy, gabelle, octroi, assessment, benevolence, custom, exactment, ransom, salvage, excise, tariff, brokerage. Bill, account, score, reckoning. Worth, rate, value, valuation, evaluation, appraisement, market price; money's worth, penny-worth; price- current, price list. (Verbs). To set or fix a price, appraise, assess, value, evaluate, price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact. (Phrases). To run up a bill; to amount to. To fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, make, change hands for, go for, realise, run into, stand one in; afford. |
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