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

He had already let his reputation sour—and his country down—so he paid up.

From The Daily Beast

But once negotiations with Comcast ended and Netflix paid up, streaming conditions went back to “normal.”

From The Daily Beast

Steinbrenner accepted the bet, the Yankees won, and he promptly paid up.

From The Daily Beast

From being a paid-up member of the Drinkers Guild of America?

From The Daily Beast

Mostly such Tories were not big, paid-up Thatcherites, but they did enjoy that era very much.

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About two hundred and twenty thousand pounds were actually paid up.

From Project Gutenberg

The men were paid up and escorted across the river Hughly, whence they were allowed to proceed to their homes.

From Project Gutenberg

Then Boris laughed no more, but paid up with the best grace he could.

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Entrance fee, $3 to paid-up members, $5 to all other persons.

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My tuition was paid up until the end; there was no trouble there.

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