PAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paid mean? 

• PAID (adjective)
  The adjective PAID has 3 senses:

1. marked by the reception of pay

2. involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby

3. yielding a fair profit

  Familiarity information: PAID used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by the reception of pay

Context example:

a paid check

Similar:

cashed (for which money has been paid)

compensable; paying; remunerative; salaried; stipendiary (for which money is paid)

compensated; remunerated; salaried; stipendiary (receiving or eligible for compensation)

free-lance; freelance; mercenary (serving for wages in a foreign army)

paid-up (paid in advance)

post-free (postpaid)

postpaid; prepaid (used especially of mail; paid in advance)

reply-paid (with cost of reply prepaid by sender)

square (leaving no balance)

Antonym:

unpaid (not paid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby

Synonyms:

nonrecreational; paid

Similar:

professional (engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Yielding a fair profit

Synonyms:

gainful; paid; paying

Similar:

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)

 Context examples 

It seems you will work toward finding a way not to have to wait so long to be paid.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On the first of these occasions, she perpetrated the attempt to burn me in my bed; on the second, she paid that ghastly visit to you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While I toiled up the fore-shrouds the Ghost slowly paid off.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I paid my respects to the rest of the Houyhnhnms in his honour’s company; then getting into my canoe, I pushed off from shore.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"To be paid for that story all of you like so well. Five dollars, I believe, is what you promised me would be paid on publication."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Forgive me, Mother, I'm paid for my silliness now.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The visit of ceremony was paid and returned; and Louisa Musgrove was mentioned, and Captain Benwick, too, without even half a smile.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The only surprise I can feel is, that this should be the first time of its being paid.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It said the heaviest toll is paid by children in low- and middle-income countries.

(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)

Until now, little attention has been paid to African rainforests, where ground measurements are even sparser than in the Amazon and where droughts are less severe but last longer.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)