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Since WWU cut their football program, he's still being paid, which is why he's chosen the non-paid, academic scholarship position.

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  1. verb Past tense and past participle of pay1.
  2. verb Nautical A past tense and a past participle of pay2.

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  • Since WWU cut their football program, he's still being paid, which is why he's chosen the non-paid, academic scholarship position. —  Building The Dam
  • I could not remember my entry information for the paid area.
  • Article 59 A monthly-paid worker may not be reclassified as a daily-paid, a weekly-paid or an hourly-paid worker nor as a worker paid by piecework, unless the worker agrees thereto in writing and without prejudice to the rights he has acquired during the period he spent as a monthly-paid worker. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • At least those executives will still get paid, which is something that can't be said about the nine percent of its workforce that lost their jobs following the restructuring the maker of robotic manufacturing systems announced during its fiscal 2009 second quarter. —  SiliconBeat
  • The nabbed ships are mostly anchored off the village of Eyl in Puntland in the north-east or the pirate town of Haradheere farther south (see map) until a ransom is paid, which is usually within a month of capture. —  [unknown placeholder $my.siteName$]
 

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