[
US
/ˈpeɪd/
]
[ UK /pˈeɪd/ ]
[ UK /pˈeɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby
- yielding a fair profit
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marked by the reception of pay
a paid official
a paid announcement
a paid check
paid work
How To Use paid In A Sentence
- I gave him £1000 down, and paid the rest in instalments.
- Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
- Preachers paid for time to sermonize, listeners could call in, some slots were reserved for Christian music.
- He said it was because he was paid to sit around and drink milkshakes all day.
- But of course Buchco is hideous and wrong, we need to raise taxes and let's throw in free college tuition too tsk stk btw, neither of you seemned to be aware the mayor of Pittsburgh just announced a similar "homestead" program where Pittsburgh residents will get their tution paid in an effort to get people to move to Pittsburgh. Radio alert.
- His offences came to light in January when the club's chairman telephoned him to ask why a £4,000 bill for printing the yearbook had not been paid.
- The gossip columnist was paid to chronicle the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities.
- Their trust was repaid with fierce loyalty.
- Back on the waterfront, the most senior man among Reservists, Major General His Grace the Duke of Westminster, paid a visit to the Royal Naval and Royal Marines Reservists at the Royal Naval HQ Merseyside in Liverpool.
- On Friday, June 4th, 2010, Ambassador Zhang Jungao, accompanied by the staff members of the Chinese Embassy and Chinese Medical Team, paid a visit to the Guyana Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL).