paid

paid · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    Past tense and past participle of pay.

  2. 2.

    Receiving money in exchange for work.

  3. 3.

    Having been compensated for.

  4. 4.

    Given in exchange for money.

Related words

Antonyms: owed, unpaid
See also: pay, payment, salary, wage
Synonyms: compensated, remunerated

Etymology

Past tense of pay, from Middle English paien, from Old French paier, from Latin pacare meaning "to pacify, satisfy" (originally "to make peace"), from pax (peace). The spelling with 'aid' rather than 'ayed' became standard by the 17th century.