unpaid

CEFRB1

/ʌnˈpeɪd/

adjective

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01
adjective
Not paid for, or receiving no payment.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Of work: done without agreed payment, usually voluntarily.

Examples

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
She took a two-week unpaid leave of absence from work.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 3
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

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adjective

Extra meaning

Not paid for.

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In context

My unpaid liabilities are still $100.
an unpaid bill
an unpaid position

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The worker complained to the manager because he received an blank paycheck for his extra hours.

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Plea, that R. and E. being ſeiſed of lands, were diſſeiſed by plaintiff, who demiſed to defendent;^([sic]) R. and E. re-entered before any rent was unpaid.
1798, John Wentworth, A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents and Forms of Practice; Consisting of Such as have Never before been Published: With...
The volume of unpaid consumption in movies appears to be lower, particularly in the United States. Rob and Waldfogel (2007) report that only about 5 percent of movie consumption among University of Pennsylvania students in 2005 was unpaid (at a time when about half of a similar population's music consumption was unpaid).
2012, Joel Waldfogel, “Digital Piracy: Empirics”, in Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, editors, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 540
A growing number of U.S. cities are alerting residents to a widespread phishing scam involving fraudulent text messages about unpaid parking violations.
2025 March 11, Sunny Yadav, “US Cities Warn of Surge in Unpaid Parking Phishing Text Scams”, in eSecurity Planet
Farm labor is a critical input in agricultural production. Farm operators provide just about half of all labor hours in agriculture, most of which are unpaid. An additional 18 percent of farm labor hours are unpaid hours provided by farm household members, partners, and others.
1996 March, Hisham S. El-Osta, Mary C. Ahearn, “Introduction”, in Estimating the Opportunity Cost of Unpaid Farm Labor for U.S. Farm Operators (Technical Bulletin; no. 1848), Washington, D.C.: Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 1
[A]ll people who perform work, paid or unpaid, are economically active. It is, and always has been, quite misleading to regard people who perform only unpaid household work outside the SNA [United Nations System of National Accounts] production boundary as economically inactive.
2003, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Programme, “Introduction”, in Integrating Unpaid Work into National Policies (sales no. E.03.II.F.14), New York, N.Y.: United Nations, →ISBN, pages 7–8

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Origin

adjective

From un- + paid.

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adjective

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The worker complained to the manager because he received an blank— paycheck for his extra hours.

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adjective

The worker complained to the manager because he received an blank paycheck for his extra hours.