pay your respects
formalDefinition
› to visit someone in order to welcome them or talk to them: We went to pay our respects to our new neighbours.Meeting peopleOfficial meetings › (also pay your last respects) to honour someone after their death, usually by going to their funeral: Friends and relatives came to pay their last respects to Mr Clarke.Showing respect and admirationFunerals
(Definition of pay your respects from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- appointment noun (ARRANGEMENT)
- blind date noun
- farewell exclamation
- farewell noun
- gathering noun
- hello exclamation, noun
- how are things (with you)? idiom
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