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paid
[ peyd ]
paid
/ peɪd /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of pay 1
- put paid toto end or destroy
breaking his leg put paid to his hopes of running in the Olympics
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Other Words From
- non·paid adjective
- self-paid adjective
- un·paid adjective
- well-paid adjective
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.
Certainly paid paternity leave is part of it (and in the U.S., we need paid maternity and paternity leave).
Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?
Maybe cyclists have always been riding around, but I just never paid them any attention.
The little crowd and the boats on the beach were right under them and no one paid any attention or seemed to be in a hurry.
M'Bongo, the great chief of this neighbourhood, paid a ceremonial visit to my husband.
Young Lamb has already paid several visits to Mr. Levison's little table.
The charges in general are quite reasonable, though I have paid one or two absurd bills.
If the high wage is paid and the short hours are granted, then the price of the thing made, so it seems, rises higher still.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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