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

Word History and Origins

Origin of paid-up¹

First recorded in 1870–75

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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