unpaid
- adjective
- /ʌnˈpeɪd/
- A lot of loans went unpaid, and many thrifts, as well as banks, had to eat them.
- unpaid bills
- unpaid taxes
- unpaid invoices
He has left a trail of bankrupt companies and unpaid subcontractors in his wake.
- He has left a trail of bankrupt companies and unpaid subcontractors in his wake.
- So so their job was to collect the unpaid bills of people who had been in the hospital.
- James, he's been stuck in Warsaw Hospital for a year for unpaid hospital bills.
- And with growing stacks of unpaid bills, stressful financial stress actually can be crushing.
- They were then sold on to specialist financial companies, who pooled them and sold bonds backed by the unpaid bills.
- The most common complaints were long working hours, low and unpaid wages, lack of rest and not being allowed out of the workplace.
- There are fines for missed court appearances and traffic, traffic tickets and also the late fees tacked on to later unpaid fines.
- There is of course some tail risk as these were not dollar denominated bonds where the investors could sue in New York if they went unpaid.
- All of a sudden I had parking tickets unpaid.
Examples
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Last month, he received urgent notices about several unpaid parking tickets.
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No, I have unpaid parking tickets.
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Well, sir, you have 25 unpaid parking tickets.
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All we have are unpaid bills.
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I have a birthday card and an unpaid electrical bill.
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Come on, Jimmy, there must be an unpaid parking meter around here somewhere, huh?
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There may be other reasons: unpaid bills or the kinds of trouble actors get into.
Fiction book (1999) -
Just wanted to make sure you were aware that your daughter's - tuition is showing unpaid.
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And all those bills, I mean, this is an unpaid light bill, isn't it?
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Social workers could be among the occupational groups worst hit by unpaid overtime, Unison has warned.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
Not yet paid and still owed
A debt that has not been paid yet
Done without money given for work or services
Not paid for work or help
Not required to give money or not having given money for something
Antonyms
Compounds
How Paid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unpaid breaks into un- meaning 'not' and paid, the past form of 'pay'. So unpaid means 'not paid', for example a bill or invoice that still needs money.