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Princeton's WordNet

  1. paidadjective

    marked by the reception of pay

    "paid work"; "a paid official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check"

  2. nonrecreational, paidadjective

    involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby

  3. gainful, paid, payingadjective

    yielding a fair profit

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Paidadj. the preterite and participle passive of pay.

    This punishment pursues the unhappy maid,
    And thus the purple hair is dearly paid. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. paid

    Personality and Individual Differences is a peer-reviewed academic journal published 16 times per year by Elsevier. It was established in 1980 by Pergamon Press and is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. The editors-in-chief are Peter K. Jonason, Julie Aitken Schermer, Aljoscha Neubauer, Michelle Yik and Colin Cooper. Previous editors include Donald H. Saklofske, Philip A. Vernon, Gísli Guðjónsson and Sybil B. G. Eysenck. The founding editor was Hans Jürgen Eysenck. The journal covers research about the structure of personality and other forms of individual differences, the processes which cause these individual differences to emerge, and their practical applications.

ChatGPT

  1. paid

    Paid refers to the status of having fulfilled a financial obligation or having given someone money in exchange for goods, services, or to settle a debt. It can describe a person who received money for a job or task they completed. It is the past tense of 'pay'.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Paid

    receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney

  2. Paid

    satisfied; contented

  3. Paid

    of Pay

Wikidata

  1. Paid

    Paid is a 1930 American drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, and Kent Douglass in a story about a wrongly accused ex-convict who seeks revenge on those who sent her to prison using a scam called the "Heart Balm Racket". The film was adapted by Lucien Hubbard and Charles MacArthur from the play, Within the Law by Bayard Veiller and was the fourth film version of the play. The film was directed and produced by Sam Wood.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Paid

    pād, pa.t. and pa.p. of pay.

Editors Contribution

  1. paid

    A form of income or payment received.

    The contract price was paid in full on completion of the project.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 5, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'paid' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #730

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'paid' in Written Corpus Frequency: #533

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of paid in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of paid in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of paid in a Sentence

  1. Scott Bickford:

    It's difficult for me to explain to my constituents why states and government authorities which have the funds to pay lawyers get their fees paid when it could be used for a hospital, we think it sends the wrong message to victims of the opioid crisis.

  2. Jason Walsh:

    We are insisting that policy makers pay attention, it is not acceptable to leave any workers or any communities behind. We have an obligation to fulfill to workers and communities that have powered this country for generations and have often paid a very stiff price in terms of the health of their environments and their people and their workers.

  3. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi:

    Our health sector is ignored because they've paid no attention to it.

  4. Teachers Interim President Ivy Bailey:

    Teachers have mortgage payments, utility bills, grocery bills. Being paid for their work is n’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.

  5. Tom Udall:

    He's advising the President. He is being paid by foreign entities, and that is exactly what's required to be disclosed under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, i think clearly there may be a violation of the law.

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