(imp., p. p., & a.) Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
(imp., p. p., & a.) Satisfied; contented.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pay
Example Sentences:
(1) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(2) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(3) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
(4) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
(5) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(6) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
(7) Particular attention has been paid to diabetes mellitus and chronic pancreatitis, but a firm conclusion cannot be drawn.
(8) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(9) In each of the clinics I visit I ask how much the surrogates are paid.
(10) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(11) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(12) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(13) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(14) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
(15) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
(16) Attention should be paid to the circumstances under which the chart is applied, as normal micturition behaviour seems to be highly dependent on social factors.
(17) He also paid tribute to first responders and rescue workers.
(18) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(19) Clifford began representing the family after the media were "camped out on their door" earlier this year but said that he was not being paid by the family, added that the story should never have been in the paper.
(20) To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts, or charged on Islamic mortgages.
Pavid
Definition:
(a.) Timid; fearful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having given my consent to Pavid's love declaration, I went home and properly lost my mind.
(2) Pavid was the most charismatic and handsome boy in our class – obviously .
(3) And indeed, Pavid and I were still pretty close friends – we sat next to each other in class, and he would show me his gluey hands, and I would repeat jokes from 'Allo 'Allo, pretending that I'd made them up myself.
(4) It almost made sense the afternoon that Pavid sent over his emissary – Andy Webster – who said: "Pavid wants to go out with you.
(5) Crushingly, it did one of those full-body shivers babies are apt to do – jerking away with its eyes boggling open – and so I stopped practising getting off with Pavid Dreen with the baby, and went and ate a whole can of tinned peaches with evaporated milk – a dish we called "Dead goldfish" – which was my stress-relieving method of choice back them.
(6) When me and my sister started writing a sitcom about teenagers, we wanted to write about all the most agonising and awful things about being a teenage girl, and my hopeless non-affair with Pavid Dreen became the basis of the first episode: there's nothing quite like a fat, bookish teenage girl who wants to be "noble", and accidentally says "forsooth!"
(7) "Pavid says it was all a joke, and yowm dumped," he said, gleefully.
(8) Pavid looked me up and down, with his edgy, handsome eyes.
(9) As you may imagine, us playing Leia and Han in the playground fuelled my obsession with Pavid to the point of mania.
(10) I let out a sad Wookiee cry – "RARRRRRGHLE" – and then spent the next six months in agony, watching Pavid and Sasha basically getting it on in space while I was sent off to "mend the hyperdrive" (stand by the big bins).
(11) Pavid, because he was the handsomest, and edgy (Have I told you how edgy he was?
(12) So his name was David Preen, but I should give him the veil of anonymity, so let's refer to him for the rest of this confessional as "Pavid Dreen".