Unpaid
[ʌn'peɪd] or [,ʌn'ped]
Definition
(adj.) not paid; 'unpaid wages'; 'an unpaid bill' .
(adj.) without payment; 'the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers'; 'a volunteer fire department' .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unsettled, owing, due, outstanding.
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Definition
adj. not discharged: receiving no pay.
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Examples
- I assure you nothing remains unpaid for, but the few dresses I have lately had: all the rest is settled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- With the advance of summer, and the increase of the distemper, rents were unpaid, and their remittances failed them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To his surprise, he found that all the bills were receipted; there was not an unpaid account among them. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The Commission may have imagined that the four appointees--unpaid--would be four men like themselves--who knows, perhaps four men from among themselves? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Molly, the housemaid, blubbered in the passage when he went away--Molly kind and faithful in spite of a long arrear of unpaid wages. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The German troops in Milan, under the Constable of Bourbon, being unpaid, forced rather than followed their commander into a raid upon Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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