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paid

verb
/peɪd/US/pæɪd/

Etymology

From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.

  1. derived from paien
  2. inherited from paid

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of pay

  2. Not free of charge

    Not free of charge; costing money.

    • paid service

  3. Receiving pay.

    • paid worker
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. For which pay is given.

      • paid holiday

    2. Having money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.).

      • I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at paid. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at paid. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at paid

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA