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

Apple paid roughly $140 million a year for the rights to show the races, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly.

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Nine plaintiffs said they were paid to sue, and four of them have said they made fraudulent claims.

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"They're managing and handling a very important strategic asset for us. They need to be at work and being paid."

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Over the years, the women received hush money payouts from the network or Bill O’Reilly totaling $13 million, about half of what the network paid their abuser a few weeks before his 2017 vacation.

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Instead, he paid $2.8 million for 2 acres at Tuhaye, the club’s golf neighborhood about 15 minutes away from the mountain.

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Related Words

• compensated www.thesaurus.com
• salaried