paid-up

[ peyd-uhp ]

adjective
  1. paid in full, as of the present or of a specified date: a paid-up membership.

Origin of paid-up

1
First recorded in 1870–75

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British Dictionary definitions for paid-up

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

  1. denoting all the money that a company has received from its shareholders: the paid-up capital

  2. 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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