unpaid for

Example Sentences

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After going unpaid for weeks, some air-traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers were taking side jobs or calling out of work, Duffy said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Insiders close to Recharge confirmed that staff wages in Australia had gone unpaid for around two weeks but insisted those payments had now been made.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2023

“The rent on this property has been due and unpaid for over sixty two consecutive days and the landlord believes you have abandoned the property,” read notices posted on the buildings, the Fresno Bee reported.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023

On June 9, $4 billion in salaries could go unpaid for parts of the 2-million-strong federal workforce and schools expecting $1 billion in federal funding could have to do without.

From Reuters • May 23, 2023

Here were all the workers in the shipyard unpaid for the last month.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt