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Paid   /peɪd/   Listen
Paid

adjective
1.
Marked by the reception of pay.  "A paid official" , "A paid announcement" , "A paid check"  Antonym: unpaid.
2.
Involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby.  Synonym: nonrecreational.
3.
Yielding a fair profit.  Synonyms: gainful, paying.



Pay

verb
(past & past part. paid; pres. part. paying)
1.
Give money, usually in exchange for goods or services.  "Pay the waitress, please"
2.
Convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow.  Synonym: give.  "Give the orders" , "Give him my best regards" , "Pay attention"
3.
Cancel or discharge a debt.  Synonyms: ante up, pay up.  Antonym: default.
4.
Bring in.  Synonyms: bear, yield.  "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"
5.
Do or give something to somebody in return.  Synonyms: compensate, make up, pay off.
6.
Dedicate.  Synonyms: devote, give.  "Give priority to" , "Pay attention to"
7.
Be worth it.
8.
Render.  "Pay a call"
9.
Bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action.  "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly" , "You'll pay for this opinion later"
10.
Make a compensation for.
11.
Discharge or settle.  "Pay an obligation"



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"Paid" Quotes from Famous Books



... feeling. I shall represent to him that we cannot possibly afford it—that I have always looked forward to his marrying well, for a genteel provision for myself in the autumn of life—that there are a great many clamorous dogs to pay, whose claims are perfectly just and right, and who must be paid out of his wife's fortune. In short, that the very highest and most honourable feelings of our nature, with every consideration of filial duty and affection, and all that sort of thing, imperatively demand that he should run away with ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens

... wedding portions nowadays were paid as Miss Betsey's was, young ladies would not pride themselves upon an airy figure, as ...
— Grandfather's Chair • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... Zeus whether on the Cretan Ida or on Dicta, and received from the god of the mountain the laws for his people. He was powerful and great and extended his dominions far and wide over the AEgean Isles and coast lands, and even Athens paid to him its tribute of men and maidens. To him is attributed the founding of the ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various

... they travel'd painfully, They paid their vows, and then To La Calzada's fatal town Did ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

... peopled, and that after a while by folk with whom they had no kinship or affinity, and who were at whiles their foes. Yet was there no enduring enmity between them; and ever after war and battle came peace; and all blood-wites were duly paid and no long feud followed: nor were the Dalesmen and the Woodlanders always in these wars, though at whiles they were. Thus then it ...
— The Roots of the Mountains • William Morris


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