paid employee
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpaidandemployee
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paid
adjective
uk/peɪd/us/peɪd/
being given money ...
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employee
noun[C]
uk/ɪmˈplɔɪ.iː/us/ɪmˈplɔɪ.iː/
someone who is paid to work for ...
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(Definition ofpaidandemployeefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The principal direct costs include the wages of the singlepaidemployee, telephone rentals and usage, stationery, travel and other costs for meetings and coordination, and printing and stationery.
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Visitors' centres are normally managed on a day-to-day basis by a co-ordinator, who in some cases may need to be apaidemployee.
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I should like to be apaidemployeeon an estate, with some security.
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It has been said that £5,000 to a highlypaidemployeemight be perfectly genuine and reasonable.
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The net salary of the highestpaidemployeeis £14,168.
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The definition of a higherpaidemployeeis that he should receive a total in earnings of £8,500 per annum.
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It cannot be a chief constable because a chief constable is not apaidemployeeof the authority.
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The chief constable is not apaidemployee.
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His formula is complex and is intended to compensate fully those whopaidemployeecontributions between 1978 and 1986 and to compensate partially those who paid contributions from 1986 onwards.
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In such a case he will normally be eligible for a basic award of £2,000 which in the case of an older higherpaidemployeecould rise to over £4,000.
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But is there meant to be, or is there, a distinction between an official who is apaidemployeeand an official who is merely appointed as a representative?
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He showed great sales talent and eventually his commissions from sales of tea and coffee made him the highestpaidemployeein the company.
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This was the firstpaidemployeeof the fire department.
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