How to pronounce “pay the rent”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (idiomatic) Of a job or profession, to provide enough income for someone to afford a place to live.
• (Australia, idiomatic) To provide reparations or compensation to Indigenous Australians predicated on the claim that the nation constitutes their sovereign territory.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

parent, penetrant, payment, patient, prent, pell grant, passieren, by the hand, berent, apparent