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Definition: Unpaid |
UnpaidAdjective1. 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: UnpaidSynonyms: amateur (adj), recreational (adj), volunteer(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: paid (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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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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) | |
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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) |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 81.59% | 319 | 16,154 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 14.58% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.07% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 0.77% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 391 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
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Beginning with "unpaid": unpaid-for. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| 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 que não recebe salário, por saldar (off-balance, outstanding, unbalanced), por pagar, não remunerado, não pago, gratuito (free, gratuitous, groundless, uncalled-for). (various references) netimbrat, neretribuit, neplãtit, neachitat (outstanding, unsatisfied). (various references) неоплаченный. (various references) neplaćen (outstanding, unsettled), neizmiren (undischarged, unsettled), neisplaćen (undischarged). (various references) no pagado. (various references) ogulden, obetald (outstanding, unsettled), med utestående lön. (various references) 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) неоплачений (unredeemed, unrequited, unsettled), безплатний (costless, free of charge, gratis, gratuitous, toll free, zoom), даремний (bootless, fatuous, footless, naught, useless). (various references) không trả lương không trả bưu phí, không thanh toán không trả công. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unpaid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anapsids, runaid, unpair. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unpaid" (pronounced unpā"d) |
| 3 | -p ā" d | overpaid, paid, prepaid, repaid, spade, underpaid. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 70 61 69 64 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .--. .- .. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110000 01100001 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n p a i d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558082677570 |
| 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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