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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

unpaid

/ʌnˈpeɪd/

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What does unpaid mean?

adjective

  1. Not paid for.
  2. Of work: done without agreed payment, usually voluntarily.

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/ʌnˈpeɪd/

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Gibon to sell up her son-in-law by claiming from him the unpaid purchase-money for her husband's shop.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446
The substitution of paid for unpaid functionaries is of itself, in my opinion, sufficient to constitute a serious revolution.
Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America — Volume 1Translated by Henry ReeveProject Gutenberg ebook #815
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In such a society, one-tenth of the product being inconsumable, one-tenth of the labor goes unpaid--production costs more than it is worth.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonWhat is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of GovernmentProject Gutenberg ebook #360
‘It is proposed that the Association should be managed by an unpaid Council, to be selected by ballot from among its members.
Robert Louis StevensonMemoir of Fleeming JenkinProject Gutenberg ebook #698
A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays by Ralph Waldo EmersonProject Gutenberg ebook #16643