Used in a Sentence

paid

How to use paid in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for paid.

Editorial note

No one gets paid to work on it. Thanks for your patience everyone.

Examples18
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

marked by the reception of pay; "paid work"; "a paid official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of paid gathered in one view.

adjective

marked by the reception of pay; "paid work"; "a paid official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check"

adjective

involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby

adjective

yielding a fair profit

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for paid.

adjective

marked by the reception of pay; "paid work"; "a paid official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check"

adjective

involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby

Example sentences

1

No one gets paid to work on it. Thanks for your patience everyone.

2

Create value, get paid. That's how capitalism works.

3

A product that they owned and had already paid to develop. The rationale was always some kind of MBA newspeak blather.

4

Otherwise when some trucker nearly drives you off the road because they have to feed their family, you're just getting what you paid for.

5

But at the very least you're already cynical about those things and demand to get paid well enough in risk-adjusted terms.

6

Both of these approaches have paid off, but improving interviews has been the more important of the two. Compare the first 2/3rds of Matasano's lifetime to the last 1/3rd.

7

The problem here is that there are many engineers who can't comprehend the possibility that there is someone being paid to be a programmer who can't code. But I assure you this is the case.

8

I can see that we've already refunded you all the hosting fees you paid for your account, and I'll also make sure we pick up the $500 migration bill that you incurred. If there is anything else we can do please let me know.

9

In the old days, 200 years ago, if you were a composer, the only way you could make money was to travel with the orchestra and be the conductor, because then youd be paid as a musician. There was no recording.

10

But I paid the price. It's simply too easy and financially rewarding to allow a client's political nonsense to screw up every stage of a project.

11

Verizon's customers have requested it from Netflix as they are within their rights to do since they have literally paid for it. This is Verizon wanting to bill their customers once and then their customers' vendors as well.

12

Here's a trick I once heard to share salary with your coworkers without the uncomfortableness of finding out you are over or under-paid. Over beers with several of your coworkers, each write down your salary on a piece of paper and then mix them up.

13

Because the guys who architected this repugnant exploitation machine already got paid. They made millions selling their stock before the market truly understood what a shit business they were running.

14

For years, collectors paid a great premium to buy the 1911 edition, just for that reason. Even in the period leading up to the 1960s, the EB was a staple in most every western home where parents valued education and academic achievement for their kids.

15

If you unlock your phone and hop a plane today, you can stop at any mobile phone shop at your destination airport, give them five euro, and they'll give you a new pre-paid SIM card with five euro worth of credit on it. That's enough to use your phone as much as you like for the duration of your two-week vacation.

16

But there's no denying that this is by several times the largest amount ever paid for a patent portfolio." They’re effectively arguing against the idea of the patent system itself, simply because Android violates a bunch of patents held by Google’s competitors."

17

I've even pointed out point-blank that their salaries are paid for by the same taxes they rail against incessantly and are met with blank stares or wry grimaces before they launch into an extended soliloquy about "values" or personal responsibility or some such. I've even had folks in the military swear up and down that some military benefit program isn't a result of tax payer dollars but mysteriously appears out of some kind of pay differential sacrifice they've made instead of working in the private sector.

18

The project team will then usually have a very tight deadline to produce the initial design, probably mostly drawn up by a team of recent architecture graduates who would be pretty low paid[1], and who will almost always end up working very long hours and weekends unpaid overtime to meet the deadline. Where the lead architectural practice is not based in the UK there will also be a local architect who will advise on local regulations, prepare the submissions for planning permission and generally deal with other regulatory authorities.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use paid in a sentence?

No one gets paid to work on it. Thanks for your patience everyone.

What does paid mean?

marked by the reception of pay; "paid work"; "a paid official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check"

What part of speech is paid?

paid is commonly used as adjective.