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paid-up en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Fully paid (for).
   • a paid-up member of the organization
   • A local Chrysler dealer had 68 paid-up back orders for cars. 1964 January 3, “Canada: Spreading Wealth”, in Time:
2. (figuratively, qualifier:sometimes preceded by fully) Full-fledged, wholehearted.
   • Among Wall Street economists, Mr. Roach has not been a paid-up member of the alarmist camp. 1991 October 6, Floyd Norris, “Services: A Boom Area Goes Bust”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jul 2013:
   • While [Alister] McGrath is a paid-up believer of a familiar type—albeit with an unusual hinterland in biophysics and Marxism—the others really aren't. 2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
   • Makoni […] had a reputation as a technocrat who tended toward moderation and pragmatism, but one who was also a fully paid-up member of the Mugabe machine. 2008 February 22, Alex Perry, “A New Challenge to Mugabe”, in Time:
3. Of an insurance policy, still in force but with the policyholder no longer paying any premiums (typically resulting in a reduced sum assured).

paid-up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of paid up.
   alt of paid up