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Definition of paid
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past tense and past participle of pay
paid
adjectiveDefinition of paid (Entry 2 of 2)
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She is one of the few paid public officials in a town run mostly by volunteers. She was given a paid day off to deal with some personal matters.Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
The emails showed that MacCord offered a paid summer internship to Evans’s son with Digi Outdoor Media — a company founded by MacCord that is affiliated with Digi Media Communications — in June 2016. — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, "Ethics officials examine D.C. lawmaker’s business ties to digital sign company," 2 May 2018 The teenagers have worked all summer on the project, scheduling meetings between long drives to jobs far from the red rock and sage country of Navajo Mountain, where there is little paid work, said teacher Heather Anderson. — Lindsay Whitehurst, The Seattle Times, "Navajo robotics team heads to international competition," 7 Aug. 2018 The roster will still grow via free and paid DLC in the year-plus span following the game's launch. — Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, "Smash Bros. Ultimate confirms final features—and new fighters through 2020," 1 Nov. 2018 Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank in Harwich Port, Mass., built a paid intern program last year to attract college students and create a pipeline of young talent. — Patrick Thomas, WSJ, "Unpaid Internships Are Going Out of Style," 2 July 2018 So the future of PUBG is likely as a mobile, free-to-play title — and not as a paid PC game distributed on Steam — that uses monetization strategies pioneered by Epic with Fortnite. — Nick Statt, The Verge, "PUBG is copying Fortnite’s smartest feature with its new seasonal Event Pass," 20 June 2018 Atavist’s primary product is a publishing software platform with free and paid tiers. — Benjamin Mullin, WSJ, "WordPress.com Owner Buys Atavist, Maker of Subscription-Offering Publishing Software," 21 June 2018 In 2016, the app added a paid service; for $7 a month, users can interact with an unlimited number of potential matches and gain access to other exclusive features. — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, "Facebook Dating Looks a Lot Like Hinge," 3 May 2018 But a Washington Post examination found that for some popular product categories, such as bluetooth headphones and speakers, the vast majority of reviews appear to violate Amazon's prohibition on paid reviews. — Author: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Craig Timberg, Anchorage Daily News, "How merchants quietly use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews," 24 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'paid.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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