paid up
Verb
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Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of pay up
- (often, hyphenated) Fully paid.
- 1964 January 3, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940770,00.html Canada: Spreading Wealth]," Time:
- A local Chrysler dealer had 68 paid-up back orders for cars.
- 1964 January 3, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940770,00.html Canada: Spreading Wealth]," Time:
- (idiomatic, often, hyphenated, sometimes preceded by fully) Full-fledged, wholehearted.
- 1991 October 6, Floyd Norris, "Services: A Boom Area Goes Bust ↗," New York Times (retrieved 2 July 2013):
- Among Wall Street economists, Mr. Roach has not been a paid-up member of the alarmist camp.
- 2008 Feb. 22, Alex Perry, "[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1716488,00.html A New Challenge to Mugabe]," Time:
- Makoni . . . had a reputation as a technocrat who tended toward moderation and pragmatism, but one who was also a fully paid-up member of the Mugabe machine.
- 1991 October 6, Floyd Norris, "Services: A Boom Area Goes Bust ↗," New York Times (retrieved 2 July 2013):
- (often, hyphenated, insurance) Of an insurance policy, still in force but with the policyholder no longer paying any premiums (typically resulting in a reduced sum assured).
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