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nonpaid

nonpaid adjective: for which no payment is levied.

Adjective

nonpaid (not comparable)

  1. For which no payment is levied.
    • Whether we see an underpaid Minister of War selling contracts for the supply of the army, and receiving bribes through the hands of his wife from the men to whom he pays out the public money, or the member of a nonpaid board jobbing for the execution of a lucrative contract for his nominee, the...1877 January, “Considerations on municipal government”, in Fraser's Magazine, volume 15, page 39
    • As in most small rural Mexican communities, local residents fill municipal office, or cargos, on a nonpaid basis.1986, Michael Kearney, The Winds of Ixtepeji: World View and Society in a Zapotec Town

Origin of nonpaid

From non- + paid.

Questions about nonpaid

What does nonpaid mean?
Nonpaid means for which no payment is levied.
What part of speech is nonpaid?
Nonpaid is an adjective.

Words near nonpaid in the dictionary

  1. nonpagan
  2. nonpagans
  3. nonpaged
  4. nonpaginated
  5. nonpaging
  6. nonpaid
  7. nonpainful
  8. nonpaint
  9. nonpainted
  10. nonpainter
  11. nonpainters

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