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