paid

[ peyd ]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of pay ¹.

paid

/ peɪd /

verb

1. See pay
   the past tense and past participle of pay 1
2. put paid to
   put paid to to end or destroy

   breaking his leg put paid to his hopes of running in the Olympics

Other Words From

• non·paid adjective
• self-paid adjective
• un·paid adjective
• well-paid adjective

Idioms and Phrases

see under pay .

Example Sentences

People who buy a box also get a free, 12-month InStyle print magazine subscription by mailing a pre-paid card with their address, according to a spokesperson.

From Digiday

More recently, when traveling to Central America to visit family, I added extra data to my in-laws’ local pre-paid phone plans and used their devices as hotspots, allowing me to join Google Meet video calls and get my work done.

From Popular-Science

An analysis should be conducted to properly find the balance between paid and organic so that you are optimizing the total search experience.

From Search Engine Watch

As the lines between paid and organic continue to blur, it makes less and less sense to have these two channels as distinct departments or teams competing over budget.

From Search Engine Watch

Bucciero and Gibaldi first started noticing issues with the USPS service about a month ago, when they dropped off 10 packages with pre-paid shipping labels that the USPS lost track of.

From Digiday

It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.

From The Daily Beast

Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.

From The Daily Beast

Certainly paid paternity leave is part of it (and in the U.S., we need paid maternity and paternity leave).

From The Daily Beast

Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?

From The Daily Beast

Maybe cyclists have always been riding around, but I just never paid them any attention.

From The Daily Beast

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.

From Project Gutenberg

M'Bongo, the great chief of this neighbourhood, paid a ceremonial visit to my husband.

From Project Gutenberg

Young Lamb has already paid several visits to Mr. Levison's little table.

From Project Gutenberg

The charges in general are quite reasonable, though I have paid one or two absurd bills.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• compensated
• salaried