Pay
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To give money in exchange for goods or services. To be profitable. To be profitable for. To give (something else than money). To discharge an obligation or debt. To suffer consequences.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
Example sentence: Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Earnings
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Wages, money earned, income.Business profits.Gains on investments; returns.
Example sentence: Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?