a well-paying job

[joham]

We often talk about 'a well-paid job/ driver etc'. But I read such a sentence: 'It's hard to find a steady, well-paying job.' in the entry of 'steady' in the 4th edition of LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH.

Is 'a well-paying job' a correct expression or is it a typo in the dictionary?

I searched the reference.com web and got nearly as many of each of the expressions.

Thank you.

[belly_ttt]

Uhm, seems strange. Oxford does has slight mistakes, so let me know if others can find the answer.

[BobK]

We often talk about 'a well-paid job/ driver etc'. But I read such a sentence: 'It's hard to find a steady, well-paying job.' in the entry of 'steady' in the 4th edition of LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH.

Is 'a well-paying job' a correct expression or is it a typo in the dictionary?

I searched on the reference.com web and got nearly as many of each of the expressions.

Thank you.

It's not a mistake; you can use either 'it is a well-paid job' or 'it's a well-paying job' - although 'well-paid' is more common. I'd guess that 'well-paying' is a back-formation from the idiom 'it pays well'.

b

[belly_ttt]

In Oxford dictionary I only see "well paid" job. Why didn't they take well paying job into the account? Do we have to put a hyphen here?

[BobK]

In Oxford dictionary I only see "well paid" job. Why didn't they take well paying job into the account? Do we have to put a hyphen here?

The hyphen isn't essential. And different dictionaries, published at different times, apply different standards. It's not a question of one version being 'right' and one being 'wrong'.

b