See Also: revelatory(dictionary)

unpaid (iou) and revelatory (iou)


unpaid (iou)



unpaid adjective. LME.
[from UN-1 + paid pa. pple of PAY verb1.]
Of a person: to whom payment has not been made, not receiving payment. LME.
the Great Unpaid, the Unpaid the class of unpaid magistrates and justices.
Times Educational Supplement Most of their work is carried out by unpaid volunteers.absol.:
Of a sum of money: not given in payment. Of a Debt or bill: not discharged or cleared by payment. LME.
Of work, an item, etc.: not paid for or for. LME.
J. Sutherland Two..removal men came to take back the unpaid-for piano. Guardian Years of unpaid charity work.

revelatory (iou)



revelatory adjective. L19.
[from Latin revelat- (see REVELATION) + -ORY2. Cf. late Latin revelatorius.]
Serving to reveal something, esp. something significant; yielding a revelation.
J. Coe Somehow he had been anticipating this: the news was numbing, rather than revelatory.