Paid is the past tense and past participle of pay.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Paid workers, or people who do paid work, receive money for the work that they do.
Apart from a small team of paid staff, the organisation consists of unpaid volunteers.
...tourist visas, which prohibit paid work.
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
If you are given paid holiday, you get your wages or salary even though you are not at work.
...10 days' paid holiday for house hunting.
He has been placed on a paid leave of absence while investigations are made.
4. adjective [adverb ADJECTIVE]
If you are well paid, you receive a lot of money for the work that you do. If you are badly paid, you do not receive much money.
...a well-paid accountant.
Travel and tourism employees in the U.K. are among the worst paid in the developedworld.
Fruit-picking is boring, badly paid and very hard work.
Synonyms: salaried, waged, rewarded, remunerated More Synonyms of paid
5.
See put paid to sth
paid in British English
(peɪd)
verb
1. the past tense and past participle of pay1
2. put paid to
paid in American English
(peɪd)
verb transitive, verb intransitive
1. pt. & pp. of
pay1
adjective
2.
discharged or settled by or as by payment
a paid bill
3.
with wages or salary included; with pay
a paid vacation
More idioms containing
paid
put paid to something
Examples of 'paid' in a sentence
paid
Like all apprenticeships, it is a paid job that combines training in the workplace with continuing education.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Like all apprenticeships, it is a paid job that combines training in the workplacewith continuing education.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Five million low paid people do not pay any income tax.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Another million of the lowest paid are being taken out of income tax.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The five million lowest paid don't pay income tax.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is also useful for setting up your own business or finding paid or unpaid work with charities and not-for-profit organisations.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
I had a vast mortgage and a badly paid, unstable career.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She has an awful, badly paid job but won't change it.
The Sun (2015)
She is now a paid, full-time manager.
The Sun (2016)
It is not uncommon for a growing organization to take its staff (both paid and unpaid) for granted.
Christianity Today (2000)
In other languages
paid
British English: paid /peɪd/ ADJECTIVE
Paid means to do with the money a worker receives from his or her employer. You can say, for example, that someone is well paid when they receive a lot of money for the work that they do.
...a legal right to paid holiday leave.
American English: paid
Arabic: مُسْدَد
Brazilian Portuguese: pago
Chinese: 领工资的
Croatian: plaćen
Czech: placený
Danish: betalt
Dutch: betaald
European Spanish: remunerado
Finnish: maksettu
French: payé
German: bezahlt
Greek: πληρωμένος
Italian: pagato
Japanese: 支払い済みの
Korean: 유급인
Norwegian: betalt
Polish: opłacony
European Portuguese: pago
Romanian: plătit
Russian: оплаченный
Latin American Spanish: remunerado
Swedish: betald
Thai: ได้จ่ายแล้ว
Turkish: ücretli
Ukrainian: сплачений
Vietnamese: đã được thanh toán
Chinese translation of 'paid'
paid
(peɪd)
pt, pp
ofpay
adj
[work]有薪金的 (yǒu xīnjīn de)
[holiday]带(帶)薪的 (dàixīn de)
[staff, official]受雇(僱)用的 (shòu gùyòng de)
well paid[person]拿高薪的 (ná gāoxīn de) [job]薪金丰(豐)厚的 (xīnjīn fēnghòu de)