paidpaid /peɪd/ 
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- It is not known whether the fine was eventually paid.
- Most people want to be paid in a valuable, stable currency that is a sound store of wealth.
- Since you do not accept paid tobacco advertisements, why did you allow this one?
- Some grants are paid directly to the developer; others are paid to the local authority or other public body.
- The fees would be paid direct to institutions on students' behalf by local education authorities.
- The gambles very often paid off.
- They paid a lot of money for me to come here.
- Where applicable, a London Weighting Allowance of £1702, £1012 or £160 p.a. will also be paid.
Longman Language Activatorto get money for your work
to be paid a particular amount of money for your work, especially over a period of time - earn is more formal than make or get: · At the peak of his career, Rogers was earning more than seven million dollars a year.· It's not uncommon nowadays for women to earn more than their husbands.earn £15,000 per year/$15 an hour etc: · Alan earns $30,000 a year.
to be paid a particular amount of money for your work, especially a lot of money: · Ella makes a lot of money.· How much to you think he makes?make $500 a week/£25,000 per year etc: · Some models make millions of dollars a year.
informal to earn a particular amount of money every hour, week etc: get £10 per hour/$350 dollars a week etc: · My sister gets $22 an hour at her new job.· How much are you getting a week?get $25/£15 etc for doing something: · I got £5 for washing Nick's car.
to earn money when you work for an employer and not for yourself: be paid £50/$200 etc: · City maintenance workers are paid around $250 a week.· We get paid every two weeks.
British informal to earn a particular amount of money each year: · Claire's on a very good salary.· In January, I'll be on £23,350.· How much were you on in your last job?
especially American to earn a particular amount of money each year, before tax has been taken away - use this especially to talk about companies or businesses making money: · Jack grosses $58,000 a year, but he has to pay taxes and health insurance out of that.· Walmax, a California superstore, grosses more than eight million dollars annually.gross over/more than: · If you gross over $100,000, you should consult a good tax accountant.
words for describing a job that you earn a lot from · There are not enough women in well-paid, responsible jobs.
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.
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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The debt must be paid in full. The hotel workers get paid peanuts. The musicians earn a pittance.
(=a job for which you receive money)· 51% of women return to paid employment within 5 years of having a child.
(=with a stamp/a stamp and an address already on it)· A copy of the rules can be obtained by sending a stamped-addressed envelope to the above address.
The debt must be paid in full.· She took three days unpaid leave in order to help her daughter.
· Many teachers do a lot of unpaid overtime.
The hotel workers get paid peanuts. The musicians earn a pittance.· She hasn’t done any paid work since she had children.
· As part-time, low-paid workers, many women earned very little.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► paid in arrears► all expenses paid
the past tense and past participle of pay → put paid to something at put(15)- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.
- But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.
- But Travis McKenna had put paid to that by being particularly vigilant.
- Hitler's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations.
- It rather put paid to any idea she'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though.
- Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.
- People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time.
- This was the cause of his deafness, which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics.
- Yet an inflamed shin almost put paid to Sampras in the first week.