unpaid

Example Sentences

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Otherwise, you could end up chasing unpaid bills.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

This unpaid work is essential to families, communities and our economy — yet our retirement system still too often treats it like a personal detour instead of a shared reality.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

At the end of the 30 years any unpaid loan will be cleared, effectively by the taxpayer.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

But staff around the world would go unpaid, halting food and security programs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Now I have nine hours instead of eight, and although one of them is an unpaid dinner hour, I have a net half an hour a day more on my feet.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich