1.
Paid is the past tense and past participle of pay .
2.
Paid workers, or people who do ~ work, receive money for the work that they do.
Apart from a small team of ~ staff, the organisation consists of un~ volunteers.
? un~
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
If you are given ~ holiday, you get your wages or salary even though you are not at work.
...10 days’ ~ holiday for house hunting...
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
If you are well ~, you receive a lot of money for the work that you do. If you are badly ~, you do not receive much money.
...a well-~ accountant...
Fruit-picking is boring, badly ~ and very hard work.
ADJ: adv ADJ
5.
If an unexpected event puts ~ to someone’s hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them. (mainly BRIT)
...a series of airforce strikes that put ~ to the General’s hopes of fighting on...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n