unpaid-for

American  

[uhn-peyd-fawr] / ʌnˈpeɪdˌfɔr /

adjective

1. not paid for.

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Etymology

Origin of unpaid-for

1425–75; late Middle English un-payd for; un- ¹, paid, for

Example Sentences

Whitworth the cost_$36.82_of an unpaid-for three-horsepower gasoline engine.

From Washington Times • Jan. 8, 2017

Despite such pleasant moments as when Nelly drove Heinrich around Los Angeles in their unpaid-for car, there was his miserable failure as a screenwriter and her refusal of further humiliating work.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2011

Let us look for a minute at the first of these absurd attempts to explain away the fact that profit is only another name for unpaid-for labor.

From The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by Spargo, John

We cannot strut about, in unpaid-for garments, nor ride about, in unpaid-for chariots, nor gather the world together, to admire unpaid-for furniture, without an inward sense of personal degradation.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

Then the servant gives them their wraps, Anna's red embroidered one, another of the unpaid-for articles which her mother has begged from the dressmaker with tears, and Barbara's old-fashioned shabby mantle, and they go.

From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip