- [usually before noun] (of work, etc.) for which people receive money
- Neither of them is currently in paid employment.
- a highly paid job
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- highly
- well
- badly
- …
- [usually before noun] (of a person) receiving money for doing work
- Men still outnumber women in the paid workforce.
- a poorly paid teacher
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- highly
- well
- badly
- …
see also post-paid
Idioms
See paid in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee paid in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishput paid to something
- (informal) to stop or destroy something, especially what somebody plans or wants to do
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