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Paid   /peɪd/   Listen
verb
Paid  past, past part., adj.  
1.
Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
2.
Satisfied; contented. (Obs.) "Paid of his poverty."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... overview: Offshore banking, manufacturing, and tourism are key sectors of the economy. The government's policy of offering incentives to high-technology companies and financial institutions to locate on the island has paid off in expanding employment opportunities in high-income industries. As a result, agriculture and fishing, once the mainstays of the economy, have declined in their shares of GDP. Trade is mostly with the UK. The Isle of Man enjoys free ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... streams and dreams, and charms and arms. I know this is the stuff they all run on with, and so run into our debts, and run away with our daughters. Come, confess; are not you two to live in a wilderness together on love? Ah! thou fool! thou wilt find he will pay thee in love just as he has paid me in money. If thou wert resolved to go a-begging, why did you not follow the camp? There, indeed, you might have carried a knapsack; but here you will have no knapsack to carry. There, indeed, you might have had a chance of ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding
... I should not have minded saying the same thing aloud to my brothers and some of my sisters, for we most of us were heartily tired of her interference with all family arrangements, and were frequently on the verge of rebellion, but my father paid her so much deference, that we were afraid ...
— Dick Cheveley - His Adventures and Misadventures • W. H. G. Kingston
... him and slandered him,—but I remember him as he appeared on that last day of all, a brave and loyal gentleman, not afraid of death, but rather welcoming it, and the memory is a sweet and dear one. If he made mistakes, he paid for them the uttermost penalty which any man could pay,—and may he ...
— A Soldier of Virginia • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... at the buyers' price. Anybody who can't pay may have the peat for nothing. None of the day laborers has paid us yet and none ...
— The Buccaneer Farmer - Published In England Under The Title "Askew's Victory" • Harold Bindloss


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