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pay-as-you-go

[ pey-uhz-yoo-goh ]

noun

  1. the principle or practice of paying for goods and services at the time of purchase, rather than relying on credit.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or based on such a principle or practice:

    a pay-as-you-go budget.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pay-as-you-go1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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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]
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Example Sentences

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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.

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Unregistered pay-as-you-go phones were used by the defendants to communicate with each other, while a car was rented by Stewart Ahearne.

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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.

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“Social Security cannot go bankrupt because it is structured to be a pay-as-you-go program,” O’Malley said.

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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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