pay vs run up

pay

verb
  • To discharge an obligation or debt. 

  • To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear. 

  • To be profitable or worth the effort. 

  • To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny. 

  • To suffer consequences. 

  • To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. 

  • To be profitable for. 

  • To give (something else than money). 

  • To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. 

noun
  • Money given in return for work; salary or wages. 

adj
  • Operable or accessible on deposit of coins. 

  • Pertaining to or requiring payment. 

run up

verb
  • To accumulate (a debt). 

  • To approach (an event or point in time). 

  • To thrust up, as anything long and slender. 

  • To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. 

  • To take to a destination or before an authority. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up. 

  • To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. 

  • Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball. 

  • To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. 

  • To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination. 

  • To erect hastily, as a building. 

  • To string up; to hang. 

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