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Unpaid

Definition: Unpaid

Unpaid

Adjective

1. Not paid; "unpaid wages"; "an unpaid bill".

2. Without payment; "the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers"; "a volunteer fire department".

3. Engaged in as a pastime; "an amateur painter"; "gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals"; "recreational golfers"; "reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating"; "unpaid extras in the documentary".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unpaid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)


Synonyms: Unpaid

Synonyms: amateur (adj), recreational (adj), volunteer(a) (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: paid (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unpaid

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cheapness

Gratuitous, gratis, free, for nothing; costless, expenseless; without charge, not charged, untaxed; scotfree, shotfree, rent-free; free of cost, free of expense; honorary, unbought, unpaid.

Debt

Unpaid; unrequited, unrewarded; owing, due, in arrear, outstanding; past due.

Nonpayment

Unpaid; (outstanding); gratis; unremunerated.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unpaid

English words defined with "unpaid": Arrear, Arrearage, arrearsBills payable, Bonded warehouseCompound interest, corveeforced salejudicial saleKnee tribute, Knee worshiplandlord's lienopen accountRent arrearsheriff's saleTo lie overvolunteer. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unpaid": accrued dividend, accumulated dividend, acquisition discount, Acreage diversion programs, activist stratum, appraiser, irrigation tax, ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR, IRRIGATION TAXballoon mortgage, balloon paymentcall provision, contributing family workers,% of economically active population, COUPON CLERKDDU, Dealer trust, delinquent taxpayer, due-on-sale clauseEmployed persons, estoppel certificatehonorary chairman, honorary president, hospital-insurance clerkINSURANCE CLERKliquidity baseMultiple jobholdersnegative amortization, Not in labor forceoutstanding debtpartially amortizing loan, patient-insurance clerkrejected-items clerk, returned check, RETURNED-ITEM CLERKseizure of immovable propertyTerms of Sale, Time off benefitunpaid family workers,% of economically active population, Usual weekly earningsvaluation allowancewithout work. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unpaid

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm like an unpaid electric bill, I'll put your lights out! (Cedric the Entertainer Presents; writing credit: Charles Peattie; Mark Warren)

Movie/TV Titles

Unpaid Debt (1959)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unpaid

DomainTitle

Books

  • Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages (Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics) (reference)

  • Ransom Unpaid (A Ransom/Charters Series) (reference)

  • The Economics of Unpaid Work (reference)

  • Unpaid Dues: A Munch Mancini Crime Novel (reference)

  • Unpaid Professional Volunteer Firefighter (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: Unpaid

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

A settlement shall be effected of unpaid premiums which became due during the war, or of claims for losses which occurred during the war. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unpaid

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Deferred taxes are compulsory charges from a previous accounting period which are yet unpaid. (references)

Unpaid fines have sometimes resulted in confiscation or destruction of homes and personal property by local officials. (references)

Another key problem threatening the textile and ready-made garments industry is the large amount of such products "smuggled" into Egypt with unpaid customs and taxes. (references)

Children

Angola

Teachers were chronically unpaid and often demanded unofficial payment or bribes from students. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kenya

In January the CCK ordered the shutdown of Citizen Radio and Television broadcast for unpaid licensing fees and improper use of communications equipment. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

In addition, Ukraine still owns $1.4 billion to Russia for unpaid energy bills. (references)

Human Rights

Burundi

Members of the Guardians of the Peace are unpaid and poorly trained; some were conscripted. (references)

Russia

Socioeconomic rights groups are the most numerous and monitor issues such as unpaid wages and benefits. (references)

Georgia

Due to the Government's fiscal crisis, at times judges' salaries have gone unpaid up to 6 months, creating an incentive for corruption. (references)

Political Economy

COSTA RICA

Some unpaid expropriation claims date back to the early-1970s. (references)

Honduras

Many workers in the private sector are forced to work unpaid overtime. (references)

PHILIPPINES

A significant number are employed in the informal sector of the urban economy or as unpaid family workers in rural areas. (references)

Trade

Korea

Daewoo's demise, which involved around $80 billion of unpaid debt, was easily the world's biggest corporate bankruptcy. (references)

Uruguay

The delinquency rate is approximately 6 percent and the ratio of unpaid credit/overall credit in the private banking system is less than 2 percent. (references)

Women

Bangladesh

Forty-three percent of women work in the agriculture, fisheries, and livestock sectors, but 70 percent of them are unpaid family laborers. (references)

Worker Rights

Madagascar

In some instances, this overtime is unrecorded and unpaid. (references)

Georgia

During the year, teachers went on strike for unpaid wages. (references)

Bulgaria

These figures exclude children performing unpaid work within the household or on a family farm. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unpaid

"Unpaid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 81.59% of the time. "Unpaid" is used about 391 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)81.59%31916,154
Lexical Verb (past participle)14.58%5744,859
Noun (proper)3.07%12101,599
Lexical Verb (past tense)0.77%3202,518
                    Total100.00%391N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Unpaid

Expressions using "unpaid": unpaid additional office unpaid bill unpaid capital unpaid day of sick leave unpaid debt unpaid family workers,% of economically active population unpaid holiday unpaid holidays unpaid leave unpaid vacation unpaid worker. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "unpaid": unpaid-for.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unpaid

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unpaid credit card debt

14

ticket traffic unpaid

3

unpaid property tax

9

parking ticket unpaid

3

unpaid medical bill

9

internship unpaid

3

unpaid

8

extra information movie unpaid

3

unpaid overtime

7

money unpaid

2

card credit unpaid

6

speeding ticket unpaid

2

unpaid child support

6

absence leave unpaid

2

electrical engineering internship unpaid

6

unpaid bill

2

unpaid wages

5

flsa internship unpaid

2

unpaid tax

4

bad bill card credit debt unpaid

2

card credit debt penalties unpaid

4

france invoice unpaid

2

unpaid debt

4

bereavement leave policy unpaid

2

unpaid invoice

3

invoice paris unpaid

2

ticket unpaid

3

unpaid waes

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unpaid

Language Translations for "unpaid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

agterstallig (back, outstanding, overdue). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

që nuk merr pagesë, i papaguar (back, delinquent, outstanding, undischarged, unfeed, unsettled). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير مأجور (honorary), ‏غير مدفوع. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неплатен, неизплатен (delinquent, outstanding, undischarged, unredeemed, unsettled), без заплащане. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

未付 (Nonpayment). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nezaplacený (outstanding, owing, unsettled), nevyrovnaný (erratic, uneven, unsettled), neplacený (voluntary). (various references)

   

Danish

  

portofri. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ongefrankeerd, onbetaald (back, outstanding, overdue), achterstallig (back, outstanding, overdue). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پرداخت نشده . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

suorittamaton (outstanding, unexecuted, unsettled), palkaton (unsalaried), maksamaton (owing, unsettled). (various references)

   

French

  

impayé. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

efterstallich (back, outstanding, overdue). (various references)

   

German

  

unbezahlt (outstanding, owing, uncompensated, undischarged, unliquidated, unsalaried, unsatisfied, unsettled). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανεξόφλητοσ, απλήρωτοσ (unfilled). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kifizetetlen (outstanding). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tak dibayar. (various references)

   

Italian

  

non pagato (undischarged, unliquidated, unsalaried, unsettled, unsold). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

無給 (nonsalaried), 未払い , 未済 (executory). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

むきゅう (eternity, immortality, infinitude, nonsalaried, nonstop, without a holiday), みさい (executory), みはらい. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

무보수. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aidunpay

   

Portuguese

  

que não recebe salário, por saldar (off-balance, outstanding, unbalanced), por pagar, não remunerado, não pago, gratuito (free, gratuitous, groundless, uncalled-for). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

netimbrat, neretribuit, neplãtit, neachitat (outstanding, unsatisfied). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неоплаченный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neplaćen (outstanding, unsettled), neizmiren (undischarged, unsettled), neisplaćen (undischarged). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

no pagado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ogulden, obetald (outstanding, unsettled), med utestående lön. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pulsuz (scaleless, unstamped), karşılıksız (unanswered, uncovered, unrequited, unreturned), alacaklı (claimant, creditor, encumbrancer, obligee, payee), ücretsiz (free, post free, postage free), ödenmemiş (back, dishonoured, outstanding, owing, undischarged, unhonored, unhonoured, unredeemed, unsatisfied, unsettled). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

неоплачений (unredeemed, unrequited, unsettled), безплатний (costless, free of charge, gratis, gratuitous, toll free, zoom), даремний (bootless, fatuous, footless, naught, useless). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không trả lương không trả bưu phí, không thanh toán không trả công. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unpaid

Misspellings

"Unpaid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anapsids, runaid, unpair. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unpaid"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unpaid" (pronounced unpā"d)
3-p ā" doverpaid, paid, prepaid, repaid, spade, underpaid.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unpaid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-p-u"

-2 letters: nipa, padi, paid, pain, pian, pina, puna, unai.

-3 letters: aid, ain, and, ani, dap, din, dip, dui, dun, dup, nap, nip, pad, pan, pia, pin, piu, pud, pun.

-4 letters: ad, ai, an, id, in, na, nu, pa, pi, un, up.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-p-u"
 

+1 letter: dauphin.

 

+2 letters: dauphine, dauphins, unpaired, unrepaid, updating.

 

+3 letters: aneuploid, dauphines, disputant, supinated, underpaid, undraping, unpainted, unplaited, updarting, upgrading, uploading.

 

+4 letters: aneuploids, aneuploidy, applauding, depurating, deputation, diapausing, diaphanous, disputants, duennaship, inaptitude, inculpated, mudcapping, multipaned, outpainted, pantsuited, pasquinade, persuading, prudential, unbaptized, unimpaired, unpedantic, upbraiding, uphoarding, upstanding.

 

+5 letters: antependium, antidumping, aptitudinal, cuspidation, decoupaging, deputations, disputation, duennaships, duplicating, duplication, inaptitudes, manipulated, pandemonium, pasquinaded, pasquinades, quadrupling, repudiating, repudiation, superadding, unamplified, unaspirated, uncaptioned, underpaying, unexplained, unpolarized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unpaid


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 70 61 69 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .--.    .-    ..    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110000 01100001 01101001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#112 &#97 &#105 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0070 0061 0069 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558082677570

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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