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

Under the terms of the agreement, $8.9 billion in grants that had been awarded to Intel from the 2022 Chips Act, but not yet paid, will be converted to equity, the two sides said Friday.

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Based on the share of total rights deal value paid by each company.

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But as the ceremony paid homage to America’s great triumphs of the seas—from the Great White Fleet to the Battle of Midway—tension bubbled beneath the surface.

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Google has been able to raise its cost-per-click prices, even as the amount of paid clicks remains flat.

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Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, like fellow US filmmaker Allen, also paid tribute to the "extraordinary" actress over the weekend.

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Related Words

• compensated www.thesaurus.com
• salaried