post-paid
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- adjective
- /ˈpoʊstˌpeɪd/
- The iPhone has been the single most important tool to get users to become post-paid subscribers with a data plan.
Examples
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A single copy costs twenty-five cents post paid.
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Apple has proven, even in places like China, that it can convert millions to a US-style post-paid subsidized plan.
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By the end of 2010, we had 5.2 billion mobile phone subscriptions on the planet (prepaid and post-paid, combined).
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In the second quarter, 50% of all post-paid (as opposed to pre-paid customers who don't have contracts) wireless customers at Verizon had smartphones.
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In Kenya, you will possibly have 1 post-paid iPhone subscriber for 250 low-income, low-expense pre-paid users, and this is the best you can get in that context anyway.
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Publisher 2010: "Not by statistical gimmicks - very literally do have an active mobile phone subscription (prepaid or post-paid) and at least one mobile phone handset that they use."
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You can send letters post-paid so the recipient does not have to pay for the postage.
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The company offers a service to deliver items post-paid to ensure convenience for customers.
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To make it easier for customers, we will send your order post-paid right to your door.
Synonyms
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You pay for it before you use it
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Sent with the postage paid by the sender so the person who gets it does not pay
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Sent with postage paid by the sender so the receiver does not pay
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With a stamp already on it for sending by mail
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Post-paid starts with post, the same root you see in postage and postcard meaning 'mail', and ends with paid, meaning 'money given'. So post-paid simply means the sender has already paid the cost for the mail before it was sent.