Strawberry and Coleman, in fact, were free agents then, and two teams paid handsomely to secure their services.

I am prepared to pay to secure that agency.

The Nets would probably have to pay handsomely to secure Wilkens's services.

However, he paid for the additional days to secure the right to hunt three elephant instead of one.

Paying a commission or a finder's fee to secure business is not unethical by itself.

How can you possibly have a system where you can pay to secure your own rating?

Thus it is also the maximum additional cost that the company would be willing to pay to secure one more machine hour.

The investor pays this premium over the share price to secure a convertible's "yield advantage."

European governments often pay to secure the release of their citizens but rarely acknowledge it publicly.

That is how much extra an investor pays to secure the convertible's higher yield.