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  • 31visit — (v.) early 13c., come to (a person) to comfort or benefit, from O.Fr. visiter, from L. visitare to go to see, come to inspect, frequentative of visere behold, visit (a person or place), from pp. stem of videre to see, notice, observe (see VISION… …

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  • 32visit — To visit with someone, i.e. pay them a brief call, is now regarded as an Americanism although it was current in Britain in the 19c, occurring for example in writings of Ruskin and George Eliot (Middlemarch, 1872) …

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  • 33pay a call on someone — pay a call on (someone/something) to go somewhere to see someone or something. The president paid a call on US troops stationed in the region on Sunday. Related vocabulary: pay someone/something a visit …

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  • 34pay a call on something — pay a call on (someone/something) to go somewhere to see someone or something. The president paid a call on US troops stationed in the region on Sunday. Related vocabulary: pay someone/something a visit …

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  • 35pay a call on — (someone/something) to go somewhere to see someone or something. The president paid a call on US troops stationed in the region on Sunday. Related vocabulary: pay someone/something a visit …

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  • 36pay your respects — formal : to visit or speak with someone in a polite way as a sign of respect I went up to her after the meeting and paid my respects. We paid our last respects at his funeral. [=we went to his funeral as a sign of respect] • • • Main Entry: ↑pay …

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  • 37pay your respects (to somebody) — pay your reˈspects (to sb) idiom (formal) to visit sb or to send a message of good wishes as a sign of respect for them • Many came to pay their last respects (= by attending sb s funeral). Main entry: ↑ …

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  • 38pay — pay1 [ peı ] (present participle paying; past tense and past participle paid [ peıd ] ) verb *** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to give money in order to buy something: pay for: Let me pay for dinner. pay someone for something: Can I pay you for …

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  • 39pay — 1 /peI/ verb past tense and past participle paid /peId/ 1 GIVE MONEY (I, T) to give someone money for something you have bought, or for something they have done for you: They ran off without paying. | Didn t pay em a penny, just asked em to do it …

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  • 40pay */*/*/ — I UK [peɪ] / US verb Word forms pay : present tense I/you/we/they pay he/she/it pays present participle paying past tense paid UK [peɪd] / US past participle paid Get it right: pay: The verb pay is never followed by a direct object that refers to …

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