pay one's dues

Strongest matches

• alter
• enhance
• lift
• modify
• rectify
• revise

Strong matches

• ameliorate
• better
• change
• elevate
• fix
• help
• mend
• raise
• reform
• remedy
• repair
• right
• square

Weak match

• make up for

Strongest matches

• apologize
• redeem

Strong matches

• absolve
• answer
• appease
• balance
• correct
• counterbalance
• expiate
• offset
• outweigh
• pay
• propitiate
• recompense
• reconcile
• redress
• repair
• square

Weak matches

• do penance
• make amends
• make redress
• make reparation
• make up for
• set off
• take one's medicine

Strongest matches

• acquire
• bring in
• collect
• derive
• draw
• gain
• get
• make
• obtain
• pick up
• realize
• reap
• receive
• score
• secure
• win

Strong matches

• attain
• clear
• consummate
• cop
• effect
• gather
• gross
• hustle
• net
• perform
• procure
• profit
• pull
• rate
• snag
• sock
• turn
• wrangle

Weak matches

• be gainfully employed
• be in line for
• bring home
• bring home the bacon
• bring home the groceries
• clean up
• make fast buck
• make it big
• pull down
• scare up
• scrape together

Strong matches

• absolve
• amend
• appease
• atone
• compensate
• correct
• excuse
• forgive
• rectify
• redeem
• redress
• remedy

Weak matches

• atone for
• do penance
• square things

Strongest matches

• pay back
• repay

Strong matches

• punish
• reciprocate
• recompense
• requite
• retaliate
• square

Weak matches

• avenge oneself
• get even
• make up for
• settle a score
• square things

Strongest matches

• repay
• retaliate

Strong matches

• barter
• correspond
• interchange
• match
• recompense
• render
• reply
• requite
• respond
• retort
• return
• share
• square
• swap
• swing
• trade
• vacillate

Weak matches

• be equivalent
• feel in return
• give-and-take
• make up for
• return the compliment
• scratch one's back
• serve out
• tit for tat

Strongest matches

• amend
• fix
• improve
• redress
• remedy
• straighten out

Strong matches

• adjust
• debug
• doctor
• emend
• launder
• mend
• reform
• remediate
• repair
• revise
• right
• scrub
• square

Weak matches

• clean up
• clean up act
• dial back
• fix up
• go over
• make good
• make up for
• pick up
• put right
• recalibrate
• shape up
• straighten up
• turn things around

Strongest matches

• amend
• correct
• counteract
• even out
• mend
• neutralize
• regulate
• remedy
• restore
• vindicate

Strong matches

• adjust
• annul
• balance
• cancel
• compensate
• countercheck
• ease
• frustrate
• negate
• negative
• recompense
• reform
• relieve
• repair
• revise
• square

Weak matches

• dial back
• make amends
• make reparation
• make restitution
• make up for
• pay for
• put right
• recalibrate
• turn around
• turn over new leaf
• turn things around