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say it: PAY-ing
paying is an adjective meaning "yielding a fair profit". It is pronounced /ˈpeɪɪŋ/ — PAY-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
yielding a fair profit
for which money is paid
“a paying job”
“remunerative work”
“salaried employment”
“stipendiary services”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for paying come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.