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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pay one's own freight en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, dated) Synonym of pay one's own way.
    • I missed a real job's stimulation and rested uneasy in depending upon the Royal Family. (A sound presentiment, there.) I had been on my own since the age of eighteen, and I liked how it felt to pay my own freight. 1997, Jeff Coplon, My Story, page 162:
    • “I have absolutely no interest in being a wealthy dilettante. I have a job. I pay my own freight. […] 2013, Cherry Adair, Relentless:
    • If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights. 1932, Delta Sigma Delta-Desmos, volume 38, page 151:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
pays one's own freight Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
paying one's own freight Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
paid one's own freight Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
paid one's own freight Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

pay one's own way