well-paidˌwell-ˈpaid adjective 
Examples
a well-paid job well-paid executives► see thesaurus at earn
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- well-paid managers
- But the bureaucratic tendency to expand has generated a stepladder of well-paid officials.
- For another it might be a school whose graduates get well-paid jobs.
- In his view, it was true that the in-house collection manager was generally dedicated, well-trained, well-paid, well-motivated.
- Milosevic has deployed his well-armed and well-paid police to harass the daily protesters.
- She's a very competent, well-paid housekeeper.
- The result was that what had been a small-sized cheap labour force became a large well-paid labour force.
- The unions claim that contented, well-paid workers are an essential ingredient of productivity, and so they are.
- This is largely because the upper-middle-class educated sector has sold out to the development industry, which provides relatively well-paid jobs.
THESAURUS► earn
Collocations to be paid a particular amount of money for your work. Earn is more formal than get or make: · A newly-qualified teacher can expect to earn about £20,000 a year.
► get to earn a particular amount of money every hour, week etc: · How much do you get an hour?· She gets more than I do.
► make to earn money, especially a lot of money, or money that is not from regular employment: · You can make a lot of money in banking.· Jo makes a bit of extra money by selling his paintings.
► be on something British English to earn a particular amount of money each year. This is the most common way of talking about someone’s salary in British English: · How much are you on?· Some chief executives are on huge salaries.
► be/get paid to receive money for work that you do for an employer, not by working for yourself: · Workers are paid around $500 a month.· I get paid monthly.
► well-paid/badly-paid paid a lot of money/not much money for the work that you do: · well-paid lawyers working in the city· It was boring badly-paid work.
► take home to earn a particular amount of money after tax etc has been taken away from your pay: · After tax and other deductions, I only take home £200 a week.
Longman Language Activatorto earn a lot of money► make a fortune also make a bomb British to earn a very large amount of money: · The person who invented Post-It notes must have made a fortune.make a fortune (by) doing something: · Roger makes a fortune buying and selling real estate.make your fortune (=become rich): · Jules made his fortune in the liquor business.
► earn/make good money to be paid a lot of money by the person or company you work for, or a lot of money from your own business: · Milos earns good money as a foreman.· Dan is making good money now, but for years we really struggled.
► highly-paid/well-paid earning a lot of money: · Most engineers are very well-paid.· Dr. Singh is one of the most highly-paid surgeons in Britain.
► rake it in informal to earn a lot of money quickly: · Athletes rake it in these days.somebody must be raking it in: · What a car! Jasper must be raking it in.
► be overpaid to be paid more money for your work than you should be paid: · In my opinion, lawyers are overpaid and underworked.
words for describing a job that you earn a lot from► well-paid/highly paid · There are not enough women in well-paid, responsible jobs.
► pay well if work or a job pays well , the workers are paid a lot of money for doing it: · Boring jobs often pay well.· Modelling usually pays very well but the work is not very regular.
► lucrative work or a particular type of business that is lucrative earns a lot of money for the people who do it: · Transferred from Barcelona to Naples, Maradona signed a highly lucrative three-year contract.· An increase in consumer demand has made sports shoe retailing a lucrative business.
WORD SETS► Wagesbonus, noundanger money, noundirect deposit, noundouble time, nounearnings, nounincrement, nounindex-linked, adjectiveliving wage, nounlow-paid, adjectivemeans, nounovertime, nounpay, verbpay, nounpaycheque, nounpayday, nounPAYE, nounpay packet, nounpay rise, nounpayroll, nounpayslip, nounper diem, nounperformance-related pay, nounraise, nounredundancy pay, nounrise, nounsalaried, adjectivesalary, nounsub, nounsub, verbsuperannuation, nounsuperannuation scheme, nountake-home pay, nounwage, nounwage-earner, nounwage-packet, nounweighting, nounwell-paid, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► job
providing or receiving good wages: · This is largely because the upper-middle-class educated sector has sold out to the development industry, which provides relatively well-paid jobs.· For another it might be a school whose graduates get well-paid jobs.· A third had two sisters in the trade, but working in less well-paid jobs as auxiliaries.· But they do have other pressures: to get a well-paid job, for instance.· Few are keen to do so since pachinko provides lots of well-paid jobs for retired policemen.· Even women in well-paid jobs, who can afford childcare and domestic help, face a stark, all-or-nothing choice.· Digital workers were always good for a car loan or a mortgage, perceived as being in secure, well-paid jobs.· I think I fancy a well-paid job with a firm that won't go bust.
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