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PAID
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by the reception of pay
Example:
a paid check
Classified under:
Similar:
cashed (for which money has been paid)
compensable; paying; remunerative; salaried; stipendiary (for which money is paid)
compensated; remunerated; salaried; stipendiary (receiving or eligible for compensation)
free-lance; freelance; mercenary (serving for wages in a foreign army)
paid-up (paid in advance)
post-free (postpaid)
postpaid; prepaid (used especially of mail; paid in advance)
reply-paid (with cost of reply prepaid by sender)
square (leaving no balance)
Antonym:
unpaid (not paid)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby
Synonyms:
nonrecreational; paid
Classified under:
Similar:
professional (engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Yielding a fair profit
Synonyms:
gainful; paid; paying
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
profitable (yielding material gain or profit)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb pay
Context examples:
At first the trade went well; for many people, seeing such a beautiful woman, went to buy her wares, and paid their money without thinking of taking away the goods.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The formidable Henry soon followed her into the room, and the only difference in his behaviour to her was that he paid her rather more attention than usual.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But it is very essential to me that the money should be paid at once.’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Milverton will send the letters to the Earl unless a large sum of money is paid him.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I hardly understood how this could have been, seeing that Mr. Micawber had paid them nothing at all as it was; but I did not like to ask.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I thought that with this description I could find the house, so, having paid my friend for his information, I started off for Piccadilly.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And the sleuth-hounds of the law, the paid fighting animals of society, with telephone, and telegraph, and special train, clung to his trail night and day.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Yes, but they were paid off.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
See me, then, under these circumstances, arriving on my first visit to Randalls;—and here I am conscious of wrong, for that visit might have been sooner paid.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His debts are to be paid, amounting, I believe, to considerably more than a thousand pounds, another thousand in addition to her own settled upon her, and his commission purchased.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
