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paid definition

paid (pād)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

pay

adjective

  1. discharged or settled by or as by payment a paid bill
  2. with wages or salary included; with pay a paid vacation

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paid

modif.

rewarded, paid off, reimbursed, compensated, indemnified, remunerated, solvent, unindebted, unowed, recompensed, salaried, hired, out of debt, refunded; see also repaid.


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paid Usage Examples

Preposition: on

  • result: The program has already ended on Paid on Results.

Converse of object

  • get: Ensuring You Get Paid When Contracting This articles discusses how to mitigate the risk of non payment when contracting.

Modifies a noun

  • 50or: Hot-Surveys.com - Paid For Your Opinions Join the BEST Get Paid 50or Your Opinion Affiliate Program!

Modifying Another Word

  • fully: NOTE: ONLY FULLY PAID UP MEMBERS CAN POST IN THIS SECTION!

Noun used with modifier

  • interest: Monthly interest Paid on the first working day of each month to your nominated bank account or compounded.

Infinitive complement

  • take: Buy or Order Mangosteen Juice Get Paid To Take Surveys Earn Money from the comfort of your own home with online paid surveys.

Used with adjective complement

  • get: Get Paid to Surf The Internet in the UK... generate an income whilst they are surfing the internet.

Preposition: for

  • work: But a writer is supposed to get PAID for his/her work, it's not the other way around.
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paid quotes

The more women are paid, the less eager theyare to marry.

-Faludi, Susan

The man who offers a bribe gives awaya little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has just paid for a woman.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham

I paid the prices of life Standing where Rome immortal heard October's strife, A war poet whose right of honour cuts falsehood like a knife. 375

-Gurney, Ivor

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