pay to play
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- pay-to-play (noun, especially in attributive use)
Etymology edit
From sometime practice of charging a fee for admission to a gambling game.
Verb edit
pay to play (third-person singular simple present pays to play, present participle paying to play, simple past and past participle paid to play)
- (by extension) To incur a cost to participate in an activity.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pay, to, play.
Noun edit
pay to play (uncountable)
- Any kind of charge to engage in an activity.
See also edit
References edit
- pay to play on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “pay to play”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.