pay up
Verb
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Verb
pay up
- (intransitive and transitive) To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.
- 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, December 14:
- At Whitsunday and Martinmas I will have enough to pay up the incumbrance of £3000 due to old Moss's daughter.
- 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, ch. 21:
- "Suppose we sell off all the horses, and sell one of your farms, and pay up square?"
- 1875, Horatio Alger, Herbert Carter's Legacy, ch. 2:
- We could pay up the mortgage on the house, and have something left over.
- 1910, Louis Joseph Vance, The Fortune Hunter, ch. 16:
- The Citizen gained eighteen subscribers; four old ones paid up their accounts.
- 1997, Taran Provost, "[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,7643,00.html $25 Million]," Time:
- [T]he decision pushes Simpson's potential financial obligation to a whopping $33.5 million […] and left Simpson lawyers swearing that there was no way their client could ever pay up.
- 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, December 14:
- (transitive) pay off
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