adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unpaid bill
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She had unpaid bills amounting to £3,000.
paid/unpaid leave
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She took three days unpaid leave in order to help her daughter.
paid/unpaid overtime
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Many teachers do a lot of unpaid overtime.
unpaid/outstanding (= not yet paid )
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The average outstanding debt on credit cards in Britain is now over £3,000.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bill
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An unpaid bill on his last Volvo car.
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In contrast, partners are legally liable for all debts and unpaid bills of the partnership.
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His body was discovered not by concerned neighbours but by police chasing unpaid bills .
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With Young, concussions and assorted knocks are piling up like unpaid bills .
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A year later unpaid bills amounted to £590 on credit sales of £1,300.
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Creditors are not impressed by this explanation for their unpaid bills .
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It was crammed with unpaid bills for food and clothing.
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Numerous creditors found themselves saddled with unpaid bills almost four times that amount.
debt
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The answers emphasise that businesses have difficulties with more than bank loans and unpaid debts .
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Any bets taken were meticulously recorded in his diary which enabled him to remind punters of their unpaid debts .
labour
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They take no account of the unpaid labour service of volunteers, which is the essential resource element of the voluntary sector.
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A true estimation of the resources involved in sport would include these unpaid labour services.
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It seems she felt they were being used as unpaid labour .
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In other words, the traditional division of unpaid labour in the home is being upheld rather than changed by the new scheme.
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This means that both paid and unpaid labour must be assessed in terms of their contributions to society and rewarded commensurately.
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The parents are quick to seize on anything that might suggest we use boys as unpaid labour .
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Feminists questioned this, drawing attention to the contribution to wealth made by women's unpaid labour in the home.
leave
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These men and women had spent two weeks preparing for the big occasion, many taking unpaid leave from work.
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The Democratic candidate for governor apparently objects to unpaid leave in all cases.
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For most of the farmers time off would have to be taken, either as holiday or unpaid leave .
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He scrupulously took unpaid leave for every day he campaigned.
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She may seek to use some of her annual leave entitlement as an alternative to unpaid leave.
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In fact, he conducted bank business many times when he was on unpaid leave .
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It's doubtful she ever has taken a single day of unpaid leave during any of her innumerable campaigns for public office.
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Patagonia allows employees two months of paid and two months of unpaid leave and allows them to return gradually to work.
overtime
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All bloody unpaid overtime , this job.
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Christofferson, however, kept track of his unpaid overtime hours and by June had amassed almost 500.
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Recently he has found himself working late in the office, unpaid overtime , trying to get the damned thing right.
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Techniques of avoidance, easing strategies, were especially important to prevent unpaid overtime .
seller
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Thus a seller who in the normal way has accepted a cheque which is later dishonoured, is an unpaid seller.
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It is of course possible for the unpaid seller to re-sell the goods in circumstances where he has no right to do so.
tax
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More controversially, the Crown for certain unpaid taxes and other levies is also accorded the status of preferential creditor.
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They involved unpaid taxes from 1984 through 1987, and his failure to appear for trial in 1992.
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They will therefore incur a late filing penalty as well as interest on the unpaid tax .
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A tax amnesty would allow unpaid taxes since 1986 to be paid at 15-20 percent of their original value.
work
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He loved this unpaid work and had successfully developed the unit from a group of about 15 young people.
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Successful candidates usually have a strong record of accomplishment in paid and unpaid work .
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Will these families be more symmetrical as far as the allocation of unpaid work is concerned?
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Being uncounted, the value of unpaid work in society can not be estimated.
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They then complete twelve months of unpaid work , known as pupillage, for a practising barrister at that person's chambers.
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Women do a lot of unpaid work in the home - significantly more than men.
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A good deal of the unpaid work younger women do is maintenance of a hairless, odourless, band-box self.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Amir worked as an unpaid informant for the internal security service
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an unpaid internship
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Coburn works 20 to 25 unpaid hours a week for the organization.
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Employees were often required to work unpaid overtime.
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Last month they owed £500. This went unpaid and the arrears will total £1000 by December.
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Perry stayed on with the Agency as an unpaid adviser.
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She left a number of unpaid bills when she went back home.
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The card holder is liable for any unpaid debts.
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The company allows its employees to take unpaid leave for various reasons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, juniors in the health-care program participate in a series of unpaid clinical rotations at one of 12 area hospitals.
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Nearly half of them have to rely on unpaid help from friends or family members.
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The procedure cost five hundred dollars, which Amelia left unpaid .
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Varley was its unpaid pastor until 1882 and experimented with various means of evangelizing and meeting the social needs of the poor.
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We have flextime and job sharing, paid and unpaid personal leave.
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Will these families be more symmetrical as far as the allocation of unpaid work is concerned?