Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Contented; satisfied; pleased. Also payd, payed.
- noun Preterit and past participle of pay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Receiving pay; compensated; hired.
- obsolete Satisfied; contented.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pay .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by the reception of pay
- adjective involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby
- adjective yielding a fair profit
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Examples
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"Just think, Sara, to be paid, actually _paid_, for having the biggest kind of a picnic," he cried rapturously.
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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Save for the assistance of the hard-worked Tony whom she paid -- paid sparingly she confessed, but nevertheless _paid_ -- she attended to her own plowing, planting, and harvesting, and was beholden to nobody.
The Wall Between Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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Thus a _sestertius_, which was of silver, and was worth four _asses_, was paid with one _as_, which was of brass; or _the fourth part only of the debt was paid_.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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I would not only have them paid, but _well paid_; but I would not have them sit in parliament while they received the pay.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804
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I'll scrub and cook and haul wood for ye till I've paid ye back -- _paid ye_, "she repeated more softly,
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Again, his title paid tribute to a significant figure in the civil-rights struggle: "Rosa Parks."
Ten Years in Three Nights: A Decade's Triumph Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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That was a title paid for by the spilled blood of innocents.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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That was a title paid for by the spilled blood of innocents.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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That was a title paid for by the spilled blood of innocents.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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That was a title paid for by the spilled blood of innocents.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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