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paid

verbadjectivetop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United States//peɪd//
  • Australia//pæɪd//
  • Scotland//ped//
  • //peid//

Not free of charge; costing money.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of paysimple past and past participle of pay

Etymology

From pay + -ed.

adjective

  1. 1

    Not free of charge; costing money.

    paid service

  2. 2

    Receiving pay.

    paid worker

  3. 3

    For which pay is given.

    paid holiday

  4. 4

    slangHaving money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.).

    I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.

Etymology

From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).