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paid forward

paid forward is the simple past and past participle of pay forward.

Meaning of pay forward

Verb

pay forward (third-person singular simple present pays forward, present participle paying forward, simple past and past participle paid forward)

  1. (transitive) Having been the recipient of help or a good deed, to propagate goodwill by helping another person in turn.
    Synonyms:
    pay it forward

Questions about paid forward

What is paid forward the simple past and past participle of?
Paid forward is the simple past and past participle of pay forward.

Words near paid forward in the dictionary

  1. paid dearly
  2. paid dividends
  3. paid down
  4. paid for itself
  5. paid for one's whistle
  6. paid forward
  7. paid good money after bad
  8. paid heed
  9. paid homage to
  10. paid home
  11. paid it forward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paid forward (page history and authors); pay forward (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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