paid

[peyd]

verb

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

paid

/ peɪd /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of pay 1

2. to end or destroy

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

Other Word Forms

• nonpaid adjective
• self-paid adjective
• unpaid adjective
• well-paid adjective

Idioms and Phrases

see under pay.

Example Sentences

Even one of his 10 wives was supposedly paid to administer toxins.

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For the Premier League game at Liverpool, it was discovered someone paid £900 for a ticket in the away section.

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On Wednesday, Ticketmaster announced it would cap future resale rates for Dean's tour and was in the process of "refunding fans for any markup they already paid to resellers on Ticketmaster".

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In addition, we discovered that nearly £6m was paid out by the trust to clinics run privately by its main breast cancer surgeon.

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The BBC went to the 66-year-old's rural home in northern France to ask him in person if he had ever been paid money in connection to the Gill bribery case.

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Related Words

• compensated www.thesaurus.com
• salaried