"pay the rent" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pays the rent",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paying the rent",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid the rent",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid the rent",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pay<,,paid> the rent"
      },
      "expansion": "pay the rent (third-person singular simple present pays the rent, present participle paying the rent, simple past and past participle paid the rent)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "55 45",
      "word": "roof over one's head"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "55 45",
      "word": "put food on the table"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To provide enough income to afford a place to live."
      ],
      "id": "en-pay_the_rent-en-verb-b~tMiAwE",
      "links": [
        [
          "provide",
          "provide"
        ],
        [
          "income",
          "income"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a job) To provide enough income to afford a place to live."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a job"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pay the bills"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To provide reparation or compensation to Indigenous Australians based on the claim that the country is theirs."
      ],
      "id": "en-pay_the_rent-en-verb-rhcFUTqX",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, idiomatic) To provide reparation or compensation to Indigenous Australians based on the claim that the country is theirs."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "audio": "En-au-pay the rent.ogg",
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay the rent"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pays the rent",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paying the rent",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid the rent",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid the rent",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pay<,,paid> the rent"
      },
      "expansion": "pay the rent (third-person singular simple present pays the rent, present participle paying the rent, simple past and past participle paid the rent)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "roof over one's head"
    },
    {
      "word": "put food on the table"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To provide enough income to afford a place to live."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "provide",
          "provide"
        ],
        [
          "income",
          "income"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a job) To provide enough income to afford a place to live."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a job"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pay the bills"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To provide reparation or compensation to Indigenous Australians based on the claim that the country is theirs."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, idiomatic) To provide reparation or compensation to Indigenous Australians based on the claim that the country is theirs."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-pay the rent.ogg",
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay the rent"
}