"pay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We have gold, but I need to keep it in reserve if I can, to pay my own troops.
- Since Iraq lacks an effective banking system for paying its troops, soldiers are generally given a week's leave each month to bring their pay home.
- He met with little success, however, owing to a desperate shortage of funds to pay his troops.
- As winter approached and he had no money to pay his troops they were unable to provide sufficient food and shelter for themselves.
- Do you know, sometimes I can't even pay my troops?
- "But how do we pay your troops in a long war?"
- Sweden received an indemnity of five million talers, used primarily to pay her troops.
- William was prepared to wait; he had paid his troops in advance for a three-month campaign.
- And now they both pillage the countryside to pay their troops.
- It works particularly when we pay our troops well.
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