If an unexpected event puts paid to someone's hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them. a series of airforce strikes that put paid to the General's hopes of fighting on. Past tense and past participle of pay. A past tense and a past participle of pay. the past tense and past participle of pay put paid to sth put
If you are given paid holiday, you get your wages or salary even though you are not at work. 10 days' paid holiday for house hunting
If you are well paid, you receive a lot of money for the work that you do. If you are badly paid, you do not receive much money. a well-paid accountant Fruit-picking is boring, badly paid and very hard work
Paid workers, or people who do paid work, receive money for the work that they do. Apart from a small team of paid staff, the organisation consists of unpaid volunteers. unpaid
marked by the reception of pay; "paid work"; "a paid official"; "a paid announcement"; "a paid check
As in "Jesus paid for my sins" Mormon: Mormonism uses the word 'paid' as a synonym for 'refinanced' When a Mormon says "Jesus paid for my sins", he does not mean that he no longer owes the debt of sin, merely that the creditor and the terms have changed The entire debt still remains to be paid! Christian: When a Christian says "Jesus paid for my sins", he means that his entire payment for all his sins has been made, no more debt remains, no further payment is due or could even be made