paid

4 definitions found

paid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Paid \Paid\, imp., p. p., & a. from Pay.
     1. Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
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     2. Satisfied; contented. [Obs.] "Paid of his poverty."
        --Chaucer.
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  Pay \Pay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paid (p[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
     Paying.] [OE. paien, F. payer, fr. L. pacare to pacify,
     appease, fr. pax, pacis, peace. See Peace.]
     1. To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another
        person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to
        discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to
        compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as,
        to pay workmen or servants.
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              May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. --P.
                                                    Plowman.
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              [She] pays me with disdain.           --Dryden.
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     2. Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite
        according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or
        retaliate upon.
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              For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. --B.
                                                    Jonson.
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     3. To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving
        or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or
        value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a
        debt by delivering (money owed). "Pay me that thou owest."
        --Matt. xviii. 28.
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              Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
                                                    --Matt. xviii.
                                                    26.
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              If they pay this tax, they starve.    --Tennyson.
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     4. To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render
        duty, as that which has been promised.
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              This day have I paid my vows.         --Prov. vii.
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     5. To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to
        pay attention; to pay a visit.
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              Not paying me a welcome.              --Shak.
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     To pay off.
        (a) To make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off
            the crew of a ship.
        (b) To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind.
        (c) to bribe.
  
     To pay one's duty, to render homage, as to a sovereign or
        other superior.
  
     To pay out (Naut.), to pass out; hence, to slacken; to
        allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under
        Cable.
  
     To pay the piper, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble.
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paid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  paid
      adj 1: marked by the reception of pay; "paid work"; "a paid
             official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check" [ant:
             unpaid]
      2: involving gainful employment in something often done as a
         hobby [syn: nonrecreational, paid]
      3: yielding a fair profit [syn: gainful, paid, paying]

paid - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "paid":
     acquitted, chartered, discharged, employed, expended, hired,
     hireling, leased, let, liquidated, mercenary, paid in full,
     postpaid, prepaid, receipted, remitted, rented, salaried, settled,
     spent, subleased, sublet, waged