settle up


Also, settle with someone. Pay a debt or one's share of the cost, as in When can you settle up for the tickets I bought for us? or Jean said she'd settle with the bank next month.

Words Nearby settle up

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How to use settle up in a sentence

  • A relative of mine has died and I must settle up his affairs.

    Frank Merriwell's Bravery | Burt L. Standish
  • But Ise gotter settle up dis policy fer de fambly so what is it?

    Three Little Women | Gabrielle E. Jackson
  • De aint no watter bout it; its fire, an I done come ter settle up, asserted Mammy.

    Three Little Women | Gabrielle E. Jackson
  • Now a new fiscal system was to be introduced there to settle up the arrears of Viceroy Mulraj of Multan.

  • On the rim above squatted Bug Mitchell, scowling, and gripping his knife as if he thirsted to settle up all scores on the instant.

    The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. Roberts