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settle up

Idioms  

  1. 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.

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He added that it’s no surprise that people “don’t always have time to do this, and they think, ‘Well, next year at tax time we’re going to settle up anyway, so why would I take my time out now — tax filing is already enough of a process.’”

From MarketWatch

"I can settle up my affairs. I can turn the heating up full blast, and that will be wonderful," 92-year-old Betty Brown told the BBC.

From BBC

Banks settle up by the end of the day.

From MarketWatch

Money is withheld from every paycheck, and taxpayers settle up with the IRS each year.

From Washington Times

I hope that these tools may serve Seattle’s activists and encourage polluters of the Duwamish River to settle up.

From Seattle Times

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