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单词 unpaying
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unpayingadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈpeɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈpeɪɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, paying adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + paying adj.
= non-paying adj.
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society > trade and finance > payment > non-payment > [adjective]
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1683 J. Dryden Epil. in Prol. to the King & Queen sig. B2 We've none so great but their unpaying Masters.
1791 J. Elphinston Forty Years' Corr. IV. 282 Our poor and unpaying world.
1843 S. Smith Let. on Amer. Debts ii. ⁋3 I am astonished that the honest States of America do not draw a cordon sanitaire round their unpaying brethren.
1894 J. D. Campbell Life Coleridge vi. 121 Which he spent much of his time inditing in the form of letters to his unpaying correspondents!
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. vi. 114 Trematodes are all parasitic, but many of them are external hangers-on.., while the rest..are internal unpaying boarders.
2010 New Yorker 6 Sept. 52/2 Unpaying galleries collect on the street to watch golfers finishing their rounds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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