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unpaid

Syllables: un·paidUK/ʌnˈpeɪd/

unpaid adjective: not paid for.

unpaid: not paid for
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Adjective

unpaid (not comparable)

  1. Not paid for.
    • an unpaid bill
    • Plea, that R. and E. being ſeiſed of lands, were diſſeiſed by plaintiff, who demiſed to defendent;^([sic]) R. and E. re-entered before any rent was unpaid.1798, John Wentworth, A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents and Forms of Practice; Consisting of Such as have Never before been Published: With an Index to the...
    Antonyms:
    paid
  2. Of work: done without agreed payment, usually voluntarily.
    • an unpaid position
    • Farm labor is a critical input in agricultural production. Farm operators provide just about half of all labor hours in agriculture, most of which are unpaid. An additional 18 percent of farm labor hours are unpaid hours provided by farm household members, partners, and others.1996 March, Hisham S. El-Osta, Mary C. Ahearn, “Introduction”, in Estimating the Opportunity Cost of Unpaid Farm Labor for U.S. Farm Operators (Technical Bulletin; no. 1848), Washington, D.C....
    Synonyms:
    unsalaried, unwaged
    Antonyms:
    paid

unpaid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

unpaid in Hindi

not paid for
अनख़रीदा anxarīdā

unpaid in Tamil

செலுத்தப்படாத, கடன் வகையில் கொடத்துத் தீர்க்கப்படாத, ஆள் வகையில் சம்பளமின்றிப் பணியாற்றுகிற, சம்பளம் கொடுக்கப்பெறாத

unpaid in Marathi

विनावेतन

unpaid in Urdu

غیر ادائیگی شدہ, غیر ادا شدہ, بلا معاوضہ
More languagesFewer languages
unpaid in Bengali
অবৈতনিক, বেতনহীন
unpaid in Telugu
చెల్లించనిది, చెల్లించనివి
unpaid in Malayalam
പണം കൊടുക്കാത്ത, വീട്ടാത്ത, കൊടുക്കാനുള്ള, കുടിശ്ശികയായ
unpaid in Gujarati
વણચૂકવેલું vaṇcūkvelũ
unpaid in Odia
ଦେଯ଼ହୀନ

Examples of unpaid in a sentence

  • The volume of unpaid consumption in movies appears to be lower, particularly in the United States.2012, Joel Waldfogel, “Digital Piracy: Empirics”, in Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, editors, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy, New...
  • A growing number of U.S. cities are alerting residents to a widespread phishing scam involving fraudulent text messages about unpaid parking violations.2025 March 11, Sunny Yadav, “US Cities Warn of Surge in Unpaid Parking Phishing Text Scams”, in eSecurity Planet:
  • [A]ll people who perform work, paid or unpaid, are economically active.2003, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Programme, “Introduction”, in Integrating Unpaid...

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Antonyms

Origin of unpaid

From un- + paid.

Words formed from unpaid

Phrases with unpaid

Words that rhyme with unpaid

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Questions about unpaid

What does unpaid mean?
Unpaid means not paid for.
What is unpaid in Hindi?
Unpaid in Hindi is अनख़रीदा (anxarīdā). See Unpaid meaning in Hindi.
How do you use unpaid in a sentence?
The volume of unpaid consumption in movies appears to be lower, particularly in the United States.
What part of speech is unpaid?
Unpaid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unpaid?
Unpaid is pronounced /ʌnˈpeɪd/ (UK).

Words near unpaid in the dictionary

  1. unpaganizes
  2. unpaganizing
  3. unpageable
  4. unpaged
  5. unpaginated
  6. unpaid
  7. unpaidness
  8. unpained
  9. unpainful
  10. unpainfully
  11. unpainfulness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unpaid (page history and authors); unpaid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unpaid (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unpaid (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unpaid (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unpaid (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unpaid (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); વણચૂકવેલું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); unpaid (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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