"pay the freight" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pays the freight",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paying the freight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid the freight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid the freight",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "glosses": [
        "To pay for the cost of transport."
      ],
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, J. A. Jance, Minor in Possession, page 168:",
          "text": "I don't want to pay the freight on the kind of conspicuous consumption that thrives on Mercedes or Jaguars.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, J. A. Jance, Name Withheld, page 58:",
          "text": "Stores that were large enough to pay the freight hired their own in-house detectives and security, but lots of companies were far too small to handle that kind of expense on a full-time basis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, G. M. Ford, Last Ditch, page 62:",
          "text": "McColl was the lawyer of choice for those who could pay the freight.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bear the cost."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To bear the cost."
      ],
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      ]
    }
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  "word": "pay the freight"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pays the freight",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paying the freight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid the freight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid the freight",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "To pay for the cost of transport."
      ]
    },
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, J. A. Jance, Minor in Possession, page 168:",
          "text": "I don't want to pay the freight on the kind of conspicuous consumption that thrives on Mercedes or Jaguars.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, J. A. Jance, Name Withheld, page 58:",
          "text": "Stores that were large enough to pay the freight hired their own in-house detectives and security, but lots of companies were far too small to handle that kind of expense on a full-time basis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, G. M. Ford, Last Ditch, page 62:",
          "text": "McColl was the lawyer of choice for those who could pay the freight.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bear the cost."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To bear the cost."
      ],
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    }
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