The phrase "abandoned paying" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a situation where someone has stopped making payments or has neglected their financial obligations, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "After months of missed bills, it was clear that he had abandoned paying for his subscriptions."
Alternatives: "stopped paying" or "neglected payments".
Snapchat Inc. has abandoned paid features, removing an option last week that allowed users to pay about a dollar to view some video and photo messages from friends more than once.
But John Morey, president of a research firm, says museums make "a huge mistake" by abandoning paid general admission.
By then, Vargas Llosa had already worked as a crime reporter, studied in Lima and Madrid, and made the fruitful decision to abandon paid journalism in favour of struggling to write fiction".I decided I'm going to try to be a writer and consecrate my time and my energies to writing.
The idea is that you can get better performance out of employees if you abandon pay for performance in favor of one or another strategy that rewards "the whole person" and not just the paycheck.
Now based in San Francisco, the company designs solar energy hotspots using repurposed materials like old gas station pumps and abandoned pay phone booths.
By December, it said, about 27 million U.S. households will have abandoned pay-TV services.
Doomsayers predicted that consumers and advertisers would abandon pay-television en masse in favour of online alternatives.
The mayor's plan to abandon pay-as-you-go spending was a relatively painless approach, since it would not affect vital city services for New Yorkers, she said.
But no American operator has had such a big uptake.For years television has battled doomsayers who predict that Netflix and other online-video services will prompt consumers to abandon pay-TV.
"Last year, even the Olympics and presidential elections could not prevent younger audiences from abandoning pay TV," Bendtsen added.
