unpaid-for
Americanadjective
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
His first thought was for the unpaid-for picture.
From The Under Dog by Francis Hopkinson Smith
He and Alice were to get married when he and the Globe were out of debt; for his father had left him a mortgage on the office building, as well as an unpaid-for press.
From Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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 Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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