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

The drop in paid-up members since then has been masked by the inclusion of "registered supporters" in figures published in the party's annual accounts each year since 2017.

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Sultana had posted on her social media account encouraging people to join as paid-up members and claimed more than 20,000 people had signed up.

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"That's his right. But as a paid-up member of the commentators and reporters union I'm very much: 'Give us something'."

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Fully paid-up political nerds, myself included, have been glued to the spectacle of the last seven days.

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He's a paid-up member of the DUP and voted for the first time in May's council elections.

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