paid-up

American  

[peyd-uhp] / ˈpeɪdˈʌp /

adjective

1. paid in full, as of the present or of a specified date.

   a paid-up membership.

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paid-up British  

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

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Etymology

Origin of paid-up

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

The judgement said the company denied knowing whether members of the Discord were paid-up union members, and that it also dismissed three Canadian employees who were not part of the IWGB.

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Reform said it had more than 268,000 paid-up members, which would mean it has overtaken Labour to become the biggest party by membership in the UK.

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As the freelance journalist Adam Ramsay has pointed out, the figure for paid-up members is given elsewhere, in a statement for the party treasurer in the accounts for the Liberal Democrats in England.

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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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