pay for

1. 1.

   have as a guest

   “I invited them to a restaurant”

   Synonymsinvite

   Broaderinteract

Questions about pay for

What does pay for mean?

pay for means "have as a guest".

What is another word for pay for?

Close synonyms include invite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pay for a common word?

pay for is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.