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unpaid-for

American  
[uhn-peyd-fawr] / ʌnˈpeɪdˌfɔr /

adjective

  1. not paid for.


Etymology

Origin of unpaid-for

1425–75; late Middle English un-payd for; see un- 1, paid, for

Example Sentences

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Whitworth the cost_$36.82_of an unpaid-for three-horsepower gasoline engine.

From Washington Times • Jan. 8, 2017

Despite such pleasant moments as when Nelly drove Heinrich around Los Angeles in their unpaid-for car, there was his miserable failure as a screenwriter and her refusal of further humiliating work.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2011

The sum total of these unpaid-for purchases rather staggered him.

From The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Brinkerhoff, R. M.

Then the servant gives them their wraps, Anna's red embroidered one, another of the unpaid-for articles which her mother has begged from the dressmaker with tears, and Barbara's old-fashioned shabby mantle, and they go.

From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip

Another benefit of copyright between nations has been to check the relentless flood of cheap, unpaid-for fiction, which formerly poured from the press, submerging the better literature.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

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