paid

1 of 2

past tense and past participle of pay

paid

2 of 2

adjective

1
: marked by the receipt of pay
paid vacation time
2
: being or having been paid or paid for
a paid official
a paid political announcement

Examples of paid in a Sentence

Adjective 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
Photographer: Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg The letter, which ran as a paid advertisement, comes as some other businesses have pulled back or closed locations in San Francisco, citing safety issues and a falloff in customer traffic. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2023 Plus, your own volunteer time isn’t deductible, no matter your usual hourly rate for paid work of the same type. Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 14 Nov. 2023 Here is a paid professional, a licensed therapist, who has been asking for their admissions. Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 The nation and states often exclude women who have stillbirths from paid leave. Elizabeth Schulze, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023 In 1965, Gary Thomas Rowe, a paid informant was in the car whose occupants killed white Detroiter Viola Liuzzo following King’s Selma to Montgomery March but the FBI scuttled the investigation, trying to smear Liuzzo instead to protect Rowe. TIME, 10 Oct. 2023 Admission is free for kids in October with a paid adult. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023 While Temu's delivery time of 7 to 15 days is much slower than Amazon Prime's 2-day delivery, which requires a paid subscription, the gap narrows significantly when compared to non-Prime delivery. Tyler Shepherd, The Courier-Journal, 7 Sep. 2023 Unlike paid search, organic search traffic is free and can provide long-term benefits with proper optimization. Chuck Leblo, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023 See More

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Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1817, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of paid was in 1817

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“Paid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paid. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.

Kids Definition

paid

1 of 2

past and past participle of pay

paid

2 of 2 adjective
: being or having been paid or paid for
a paid political announcement

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