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Definition of unpaid
1 : not paid an unpaid volunteer
2 : not paying a salary an unpaid position
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Examples of unpaid in a Sentence
I have a pile of unpaid bills sitting on my desk.
The city is trying to collect unpaid taxes.
She took three months of unpaid leave from her job.
I served as an unpaid consultant on the project.
Recent Examples of unpaid from the Web
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Aubier also sat on the board of the Total Foundation, an unpaid position.
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Schools have quickly reopened, but initial jubilation has turned to despondency among teachers who, six months later, remain unpaid.
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Children often bear the brunt of unpaid meal accounts.
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Children often bear the brunt of unpaid meal accounts.
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Next door in Virginia, the day will bring good news for ticket scalpers and people with unpaid court fines, but bad tidings for university boards that want to jack up tuition while no one is looking.
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Under his plan, department heads and their deputies would take unpaid days off, and could assign furloughs to nonunion subordinates.
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Hospitals saved a total of $6.2 billion on uncompensated care, including charity cases and bad debts (when bills for services were unpaid).
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While a senator, McConnell voted against the Family and Medical Leave Act, which guarantees 12 weeks of unpaid leave to employees dealing with an illness or caring for a child or sick family member.
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First Known Use of unpaid
14th century
UNPAID Defined for English Language Learners
unpaid
playDefinition of unpaid for English Language Learners
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: needing to be paid
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: done or taken without payment
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: not receiving money for work that is done
UNPAID Defined for Kids
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