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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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WTI and Brent settle up 1.9% at $66.43 and $71.96 a barrel, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Banks settle up by the end of the day.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

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

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2023

“They need to settle up with Rogan, let him go to a home that will be consistent with who he is. And everybody will be better off.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022

What if you could play as often and as long as you pleased and didn’t have to settle up until you were finished playing?

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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