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pay up

verb

Pay in full, discharge all that is owing, as in, It's late—let's pay up and go home . [c. 1800] Also see pay off , def. 1.

For platinum, gold, or other more generous plans, the premiums (or amount you pay up front) will be more expensive.

Even bus stops for minivans wishing to run their routes there have to pay up.

Karen Ignani of AHIP, a large group of providers, said the pay-up rate so far in her realm has been 85 percent.

If an employer refuses to pay up even when a court order has been issued, there is little a worker can do.

And people with means are willing to pay up for premium products.

He threw the Perth bailies into prison, and required them, on pain of death, to pay up 54 of the King's Whitsunday rents.

At the time of the grant it was intended that the advances should be repaid as soon as the tenants should pay up their arrears.

Its been hanging over me since last term and Skeel has been at me several times this term to pay up.

If he made a bet with you and lost he'd pay up promptly, if he had to pawn his clothes and mine too.

How was he to pay up the liabilities of his bank shares from his dwindling practice?

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