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paid.

Not free of charge; costing money.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/peɪd/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/pæɪd/Australia, New-Zealand/ped/Scotland/peid/Wales
  1. Not free of charge; costing money.

    not-comparable
    paid service
  2. Receiving pay.

    not-comparable
    paid worker
  3. For which pay is given.

    not-comparable
    paid holiday
  4. Having money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.).

    not-comparable · slang
    I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.
Where this word comes from

From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.

verb/peɪd/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/pæɪd/Australia, New-Zealand/ped/Scotland/peid/Wales
  1. simple past and past participle of pay

    form-of · participle · past
Where this word comes from

From pay + -ed.

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