paid

paid
[[t]pe͟ɪd[/t]]
1) Paid is the past tense and past participle of pay.
2) ADJ: ADJ n Paid workers, or people who do paid work, receive money for the work that they do.

Apart from a small team of paid staff, the organisation consists of unpaid volunteers.

...tourist visas, which prohibit paid work.

Ant:
3) ADJ: ADJ n If you are given paid holiday, you get your wages or salary even though you are not at work.

...10 days' paid holiday for house hunting...

He has been placed on a paid leave of absence while investigations are made.

4) ADJ: adv ADJ If you are well paid, you receive a lot of money for the work that you do. If you are badly paid, you do not receive much money.

...a well-paid accountant...

Travel and tourism employees in the UK are among the worst paid in the developed world...

Fruit-picking is boring, badly paid and very hard work.

5) PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n If an unexpected event puts paid to someone's hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them. [mainly BRIT]

...a series of airforce strikes that put paid to the General's hopes of fighting on...

Only six months ago I ran my own business. The recession put paid to that.


English dictionary. 2008.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • paid — [peɪd] adjective 1. paid work is work which you receive money for: • It will become increasingly difficult for those over retirement age to obtain any paid work with which to supplement their pension. 2. HUMAN RESOURCES a paid worker receives… …   Financial and business terms

  • paid-up — adj BrE informal 1.) a fully paid up member of sth if someone is a fully paid up member of a particular group, they strongly support what that group likes or believes in ▪ a fully paid up member of the celebrity circuit 2.) paid up member someone …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Paid — Paid, imp., p. p., & a. from {Pay}. 1. Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney. [1913 Webster] 2. Satisfied; contented. [Obs.] Paid of his poverty. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Paid — may refer to several films:*Paid (1930 film), starring Joan Crawford *Paid (2006 film), a 2006 Dutch film …   Wikipedia

  • paid–up — adj: requiring no further payments a paid–up insurance policy Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • paid — past and past participle of PAY(Cf. ↑payer). ● put paid to Cf. ↑put paid to …   English terms dictionary

  • paid-up — ► ADJECTIVE 1) with all subscriptions or charges paid in full. 2) committed to a cause, group, etc.: a fully paid up postmodernist …   English terms dictionary

  • paid — [pād] vt., vi. pt. & pp. of PAY1 adj. 1. discharged or settled by or as by payment [a paid bill] 2. with wages or salary included; with pay [a paid vacation] …   English World dictionary

  • paid — S2 [peıd] v the past tense and past participle of ↑pay →put paid to sth at ↑put …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • paid-up — paid ,up adjective paid for completely …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Paid.... — Paid...., s. Päd …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”