paid
paid /p'eɪd/
1
Paid is the past tense and past participle of pay.
2 [ADJ] ADJ n
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
3 [ADJ] ADJ n
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...
4 [ADJ] adv ADJ
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.
5 [PHRASE] V inflects, PHR n
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...
1
Paid is the past tense and past participle of pay.
2 [ADJ] ADJ n
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
3 [ADJ] ADJ n
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...
4 [ADJ] adv ADJ
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.
5 [PHRASE] V inflects, PHR n
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...