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I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'
Billie Whitelaw

Meaning of "well-paid" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WELL-PAID

well-paid play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WELL-PAID

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Well-Paid is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WELL-PAID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of well-paid in the English dictionary

The definition of well-paid in the dictionary is receiving or involving good remuneration.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WELL-PAID

well-motivated
well-nigh
well-nourished
well-off
well-oiled
well-ordered
well-ordering
well-organised
well-organized
well-padded
well-placed
well-planned
well-played
well-pleased
well-practised
well-prepared
well-preserved
well-proportioned
well-protected
well-provided

WORDS THAT END LIKE WELL-PAID

all-expenses-paid
duty paid
highly paid
low-paid
lower paid
nonpaid
overpaid
paid
post-paid
postage paid
prepaid
repaid
reply-paid
taxpaid
underpaid
unpaid
unrepaid

Synonyms and antonyms of well-paid in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WELL-PAID»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «well-paid» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of well-paid

Translation of «well-paid» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WELL-PAID

Find out the translation of well-paid to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of well-paid from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «well-paid» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

工资高的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bien pagado
570 millions of speakers

English

well-paid
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अच्छी तरह से भुगतान
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

حَسْنُ الدَخْل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хорошо оплачиваемый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bem pago
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাল বেতনভোগী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bien payé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dibayar dengan baik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gut bezahlt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

いい給料を取っている
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보수가 좋은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Well-paid
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

được trả lương cao
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நல்ல ஊதியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सु-पेड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iyi ücretli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ben pagato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dobrze płatny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

добре оплачуваний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bine plătit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καλοπληρωμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

goed betaalde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

välbetald
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

godt betalt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of well-paid

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-PAID»

The term «well-paid» is regularly used and occupies the 79.246 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-PAID» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about well-paid

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2 QUOTES WITH «WELL-PAID»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word well-paid.
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Chellie Pingree
The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.
2
Billie Whitelaw
I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WELL-PAID»

Discover the use of well-paid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to well-paid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in ...
After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever.
Brad Snyder, 2007
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A well-paid slave: Curt Flood's fight for free agency in ...
Traces the landmark 1969 Supreme Court case between All-Star center fielder Curt Flood and Major League Baseball, documenting how he fought to play for the team of his choice at the cost of his career and placement in the Hall of Fame but ...
Brad Snyder, 2006
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A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in ...
Traces the landmark 1969 Supreme Court case between All-Star center fielder Curt Flood and Major League Baseball, documenting how he fought to play for the team of his choice at the cost of his career and placement in the Hall of Fame but ...
Brad Snyder, 2007
4
Remapping Gender in the New Global Order
This implies that nearly half of the employment expansion occurred in well-paid sectors and one-third occurred in poorly- paid sectors, leading to polarization in women's wages. Also, even though employ- ment in well-paid service sectors ...
Marjorie Griffin-Cohen, Janine Brodie, 2007
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Get Paid to Write!: The No-Nonsense Guide to Freelance Writing
None of the competitive books reveals the stylistic secrets that editors are looking for, how to protect your ideas, or what happens when your book or article gets published; Williams thoroughly covers these areas.
Thomas Williams, 2004
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The Gospel magazine, and theological review. Ser. 5. Vol. 3, ...
Jf the sacrifice of three-fourths of one's time, and an unceasing tax upon one's energies, be payment, I am well paid. If ceaseless interruption throughout each day, and nervously-agitated, sleep-broken nights be payment, I am well paid.
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Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language ...
You can't convert copper is like tin into copper is tin (Glucksberg & Keysar, 1990). Likewise, many metaphors cannot be converted to similes and retain their meaning. Consider the expression, My lawyer is a well-paid shark (Bowdle & Gentner, ...
Matthew J. Traxler, 2011
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On Sand and the Role of Grease in Labor Markets: How Does ...
Third, the setting of Wages of the less well paid is studied separately. Studying the wages of the less well paid is particularly interesting because legal minimum wages do not exist in Germany, unlike in the United Kingdom and the United ...
Anja Decressin, Jörg Decressin, 2002
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The Insider's Guide to Outsourcing Risks and Rewards
6.3.5 Integrity and Loyalty A well-paid offshore manager had to make decisions concerning employing new staff. Ignoring other, more qualified candidates, he gave the jobs to some of his acquaintances. This demonstrates that even though he ...
Johann Rost, 2006
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Employment Law
If a job is well paid, the additional income can be spent on buying services or employing others to perform domestic work. For example, a well-paid parent can afford to pay for childcare and to purchase prepared meals. If work is badly paid,  ...
Hugh Collins, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WELL-PAID»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term well-paid is used in the context of the following news items.
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Children should come before well-paid public servants
Friday 31 July 2015. Children should come before well-paid public servants. Charlie Weston Twitter · Email. Published 21/06/2015 | 02:30. 0 Comments; Share. «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
2
Cameron calls for more well-paid jobs as average Midlands wage falls
Prime Minister David Cameron said he wants to see more well-paid jobs in the UK, after it was revealed the average wage in the West Midlands has fallen by 11 ... «Birmingham Post, Apr 15»
3
Well-educated, well-paid, but mired in debt
A TERTIARY education, average or even above-average income but crushing credit card or other unsecured debt of at least two years' worth of annual pay. «The Straits Times, Apr 15»
4
Women lag in well-paid blue-collar jobs
Caption: Heather Mayther, 32, completed the Oregon Tradeswomen's pre-apprenticeship program and then a Carpenters Union training program last year, and ... «Marketplace.org, Mar 15»
5
New nursing school to train well-paid specialists
New nursing school to train well-paid specialists. North Shore-LIJ Health System and Hofstra University will open a graduate school for nurse practitioners. «Crain's New York Business, Mar 15»
6
The only winners in Fairfax's current decline are its well-paid
The 86% decline in profits posted by Fairfax this week shows Greg Hywood's bold plan to turn the company around is clearly not working. You need more than ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
7
China's graft-probe: Well-paid jobs for officials' spouses 'not unusual'
It is not uncommon for senior officials' spouses and children to have ceremonial but well-paid jobs at China's financial institutions, a mainland news outlet has ... «South China Morning Post, Feb 15»
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The Secret World of a Well-Paid 'Donor Adviser' in Politics
A constellation of left-leaning nonprofits and “super PACs” are raising tens of millions of dollars to pave the way for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
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Which is best: interesting job or well-paid job?
It's the topic of a thousand dinner party conversations. Is it better to have a job which pays very well or a job that is genuinely interesting? Do you want people to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 14»
10
Doctors are well paid – but I still don't get enough for what I do
Anyone with access to Google will be able to tell you that doctors are among the most well-paid professionals. The first results that pop up tell you how many ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»

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