paid
/peɪd/ adjective
Also a form of pay
Forms payed
- adjective Not free of charge; costing money. “paid service”
- adjective Receiving pay. “paid worker”
- adjective For which pay is given. “paid holiday”
- adjective (slang) Having money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.). “I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.”
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Etymology
From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.
From pay + -ed.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “paid”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details