PAID


Meaning of PAID in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ peɪd ]

1.

Paid is the past tense and past participle of pay .

2.

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.

≠ unpaid

ADJ : ADJ n

3.

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...

ADJ : ADJ n

4.

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...

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

ADJ : adv ADJ

5.

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...

PHRASE : V inflects , PHR n

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