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paid-up
[ peyd-uhp ]
adjective
- paid in full, as of the present or of a specified date:
a paid-up membership.
paid-up
adjective
- having paid the due, full, or required fee to be a member of an organization, club, political party, etc
- denoting a security in which all the instalments have been paid; fully paid
a paid-up share
- denoting all the money that a company has received from its shareholders
the paid-up capital
- denoting an endowment assurance policy on which the payment of premiums has stopped and the surrender value has been used to purchase a new single-premium policy
Word History and Origins
Origin of paid-up1
Example Sentences
Fully paid-up political nerds, myself included, have been glued to the spectacle of the last seven days.
He's a paid-up member of the DUP and voted for the first time in May's council elections.
Bernhard went to his grave swearing he had never been a paid-up member of Hitler's party.
The centre, of which he is a director, opened in July 2023 and has about 35 paid-up members - both children and adults who play together.
Mr Murrell, who is Nicola Sturgeon's husband, was urged to clarify "paid-up" party member numbers, and the number of digital and postal voting papers that had been released.
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