1
: not paid
an unpaid volunteer
2
: not paying a salary
an unpaid position
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.
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Vermont Expanded parental leave Starting next month, the state will expand its unpaid parental leave.
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Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 22 June 2025
In 2024, the retailer introduced handheld scanners at select locations, which enabled employees to ensure that shoppers were not using old or fake receipts to walk out of stores with unpaid items.
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 21 June 2025
Where people are the computational subjects of those algorithmic machinations, however, there is no law, present or effective, to protect them against great and propagating harms; each of us is part of a decentralized machine, feeding the production with unpaid inputs.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Williams was inspired to start the company as a way to provide work for professional dancers during their unpaid summer layoffs.
—Lauren Harvey, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
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Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 22 June 2025
In 2024, the retailer introduced handheld scanners at select locations, which enabled employees to ensure that shoppers were not using old or fake receipts to walk out of stores with unpaid items.
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 21 June 2025
Where people are the computational subjects of those algorithmic machinations, however, there is no law, present or effective, to protect them against great and propagating harms; each of us is part of a decentralized machine, feeding the production with unpaid inputs.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Williams was inspired to start the company as a way to provide work for professional dancers during their unpaid summer layoffs.
—Lauren Harvey, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
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“Unpaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unpaid. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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unpaid
adjective
un·paid
ˌən-ˈpād 
1
: not paid
an unpaid volunteer
2
: not paying a salary
an unpaid position
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