Definition of "paid" []

• Past tense and past participle of pay1. (verb)
• Nautical A past tense and a past participle of pay2. (verb)

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• ""Just think, Sara, to be paid, actually _paid_, for having the biggest kind of a picnic," he cried rapturously."
• "Save for the assistance of the hard-worked Tony whom she paid -- paid sparingly she confessed, but nevertheless _paid_ -- she attended to her own plowing, planting, and harvesting, and was beholden to nobody."
• "Thus a _sestertius_, which was of silver, and was worth four _asses_, was paid with one _as_, which was of brass; or _the fourth part only of the debt was paid_."