paid
IPA: pˈeɪd
adjective
- That is not free of charge; that costs money.
- (slang) Rich, wealthy
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Examples of "paid" in Sentences
- That was a title paid for by the spilled blood of innocents.
- Again, his title paid tribute to a significant figure in the civil-rights struggle: "Rosa Parks."
- I'll scrub and cook and haul wood for ye till I've paid ye back -- _paid ye_, "she repeated more softly,
- "Just think, Sara, to be paid, actually _paid_, for having the biggest kind of a picnic," he cried rapturously.
- I would not only have them paid, but _well paid_; but I would not have them sit in parliament while they received the pay.
- Thus a _sestertius_, which was of silver, and was worth four _asses_, was paid with one _as_, which was of brass; or _the fourth part only of the debt was paid_.
- Save for the assistance of the hard-worked Tony whom she paid -- paid sparingly she confessed, but nevertheless _paid_ -- she attended to her own plowing, planting, and harvesting, and was beholden to nobody.
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