Meanings
- not comparableNot paid for.
an unpaid bill
4 more examples
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 an Index to the Principal Work, Incorporating and Making it a Continuation of Townshend's and Cornwall's Tables, to the Present Time; as Well as an Index of Reference to All the Ancient and Modern Entries Extant, volume VII (Debt. Detinue.), London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 625[T]he plaintiff re-sold the said one hundred and sixty-five bags of Russian and German wool so remaining unaccepted by the defendants and unpaid for by them, by public sale, at and for a much less sum, to wit, the sum of 2000l. less than the sum so agreed to be paid by the defendants for the same; […]
1828 May 19, “Maclean v. Dunn and Watkins”, in The Law Journal for the Year 1828: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, and Common Pleas, from Michaelmas Term 1827, to Trinity Term 1828, both inclusive. And Cases Connected with the Duties and Office of Magistrates, Decided during Those Terms, volume IV, London: Printed by James Holmes, 4, Took's Court, Chancery Lane, for J. W. Paget, 5, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, →OCLC, page 185, column 1The 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 540A 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 PlanetAntonyms: paid
- not comparableOf work: done without agreed payment, usually voluntarily.
an unpaid position
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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 7–8Synonyms: unsalaried, unwaged · Antonyms: paid
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot paid for.
adjectiveOf work: done without agreed payment, usually voluntarily.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot paid
adjectiveengaged in as a pastime
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂ḱ-
- Proto-Indo-European*péh₂ḱs
- Proto-Italic*pāks
- Latinpāx
- Latinpācō
- Old Frenchpaiier
- Middle Englishpayen
- Englishpay
- Englishpaid
- Englishunpaid
Translations
Bulgarian неплатен, безвъзмезден
- неплатен (neplaten)not paid for
- безвъзмезден (bezvăzmezden)not paid for
- безплатен (bezplaten)done without agreed payment
Chinese Mandarin 未付款的
- 未付款的 (wèi fùkuǎn de)not paid for
Danish ubetalt, ulønnet
- ubetaltnot paid for
- ulønnetdone without agreed payment
Finnish maksamaton, palkaton
- maksamatonnot paid for
- palkatondone without agreed payment
French impayé, non rétribué
- impayénot paid for
- non rétribuédone without agreed payment
- non rémunérédone without agreed payment
- non payédone without agreed payment
German unbezahlt, unbezahlt
- unbezahltnot paid for
- unbezahltdone without agreed payment
- ehrenamtlichdone without agreed payment
- unentgeltlichdone without agreed payment
Greek απλήρωτος, άμισθος
- απλήρωτος (aplírotos)not paid for
- άμισθος (ámisthos)done without agreed payment
Hindi अनख़रीदा
- अनख़रीदा (anxarīdā)not paid for
Icelandic vangoldinn
- vangoldinnnot paid for
Italian impagato
- impagatonot paid for
Japanese 未払いの
- 未払いの (mibarai no)not paid for
Māori tauware, taurewa
- tauwarenot paid for
- taurewanot paid for
Norwegian Bokmål ubetalt, ulønnet
- ubetaltnot paid for
- ulønnetdone without agreed payment
- ulønnadone without agreed payment
- uløntdone without agreed payment
Polish niepłatny, niepłatny
- niepłatnynot paid for
- niepłatnydone without agreed payment
Romanian neplătit, neachitat
- neplătitnot paid for
- neachitatnot paid for
- neretribuitnot paid for
- netimbratnot paid for
- nefrancatnot paid for
- neremuneratdone without agreed payment
- neplătitdone without agreed payment
- fără platădone without agreed payment
Russian неупла́ченный, неопла́ченный
- неупла́ченный (neupláčennyj)not paid for
- неопла́ченный (neopláčennyj)not paid for
Spanish no remunerado
- no remuneradodone without agreed payment
Swedish obetald, upplupen
- obetaldnot paid for
- upplupennot paid for
- oavlönaddone without agreed payment
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unpaid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpaid
“unpaid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpaid. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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