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paid-up

[ peyd-uhp ]

adjective

  1. paid in full, as of the present or of a specified date:

    a paid-up membership.



paid-up

adjective

  1. having paid the due, full, or required fee to be a member of an organization, club, political party, etc
  2. denoting a security in which all the instalments have been paid; fully paid

    a paid-up share

  3. denoting all the money that a company has received from its shareholders

    the paid-up capital

  4. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of paid-up1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences

Fully paid-up political nerds, myself included, have been glued to the spectacle of the last seven days.

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He's a paid-up member of the DUP and voted for the first time in May's council elections.

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Bernhard went to his grave swearing he had never been a paid-up member of Hitler's party.

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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.

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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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