paid

[ peyd ]

/ peɪd /

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verb

a simple past tense and past participle of pay¹.

OTHER WORDS FROM paid

non·paid, adjective self-paid, adjective un·paid, adjective well-paid, adjective

Words nearby paid

pahoehoe, pahouin, pahsien, pai-hua, pai-loo, paid, paid-in, paid-in surplus, paid-up, paido-, paige

Example sentences from the Web for unpaid

I recently got asked by an administrator at the Library of Congress to do unpaid labor for its website.

Rich People Want You to Work for Free |Ted Gioia |October 20, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
(1) Only charities and non-profits should ask for unpaid workers to staff their operations or undertake time-consuming projects.

Rich People Want You to Work for Free |Ted Gioia |October 20, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Burt is part of an informal, unpaid foreign policy team who regularly briefs Paul on international issues.

Rand Paul Gives War a Chance |Olivia Nuzzi |August 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He was retired, but came in, unpaid, to make sure the boosters were attached right.

Why Does the USA Depend on Russian Rockets to Get Us Into Space? |P. J. O’Rourke |June 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Entering Bartilla we are closely questioned at a checkpoint by members of a self-defense force of 500 unpaid part-timers.

The Tragic Exodus of Iraq’s Christians |Jamie Dettmer |June 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And not only has the unpaid service aided the growth of the movement, it has also added to its moral and religious power.

Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School |Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Fortescue, the poets kind, unpaid lawyer, was afterwards (in 1738) Master of the Rolls.

Haunted London |Walter Thornbury
Strong police forces (unpaid) had to be kept ready, as much prejudice and ill-feeling existed at times.

Forty Years Among the Indians |Daniel W. Jones
There is less stealing, the goods being more in common, only sometimes a sly rifling of pockets by the unpaid wife.

The home |Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The men do not need to ask who is the district leader; he finds them through his unpaid workers and the coalition is accomplished.

The Leaven in a Great City |Lillian William Betts

British Dictionary definitions for unpaid (1 of 2)

unpaid

/ (ʌnˈpeɪd) /

adjective

(of a bill, debt, etc) not yet paid

working without pay

having wages outstanding

British Dictionary definitions for unpaid (2 of 2)

paid

/ (peɪd) /

verb

the past tense and past participle of pay 1

put paid to mainly British and NZ to end or destroy breaking his leg put paid to his hopes of running in the Olympics

Idioms and Phrases with unpaid

paid

see under pay.

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