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pay-as-you-go
[ pey-uhz-yoo-goh ]
noun
- the principle or practice of paying for goods and services at the time of purchase, rather than relying on credit.
adjective
- of, relating to, or based on such a principle or practice:
a pay-as-you-go budget.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pay-as-you-go1
Idioms and Phrases
Pay for purchases immediately instead of deferring payment. For example, Ruth and Bob had no credit cards; they believed in paying as you go . [First half of 1800s]Example Sentences
Prosecutors argued the Ahearns and Kelly were equally culpable in the plot to murder Allen - which involved a hired car, surveillance and unregistered pay-as-you-go phones.
Unregistered pay-as-you-go phones were used by the defendants to communicate with each other, while a car was rented by Stewart Ahearne.
Indeed, Furchtgott-Roth tries to blur the definition of "public transit" to mean something entirely different, which sounds more like the pay-as-you-go private-sector options that already exist.
“Social Security cannot go bankrupt because it is structured to be a pay-as-you-go program,” O’Malley said.
However it is already the case that most phones possessed by children are likely to have been provided by parents - under-18's cannot sign contracts, and most big operators say they do not sell pay-as-you-go phones to under-16's.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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