Compensation given for services performed; salary or wages; stipend; recompense; hire_ as, a soldier's pay and allowances; the men demanded higher pay, A person considered with regard to his or her credit or reliability in discharging debts, Recompense or reward, adjective_ Requiring payment to use or operate, Of, relating to, giving, or receiving payments, Yielding valuable metal in mining, intransitive verb_ To bear a cost or penalty in recompense, To give money in exchange for goods or services, To afford an advantage to; profit, transitive verb_ To coat or cover (seams of a ship, for example) with waterproof material such as tar or asphalt