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paid-up

paid-up
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [peyd uhp]
    • /peɪd ʌp/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [peyd uhp]
    • /peɪd ʌp/

Definitions of paid-up word

  • adjective paid-up paid in full, as of the present or of a specified date: a paid-up membership. 1
  • adjective paid-up If a person or country is a paid-up member of a group, they are an enthusiastic member or are recognized by most people as being a member of it. 0
  • adjective paid-up If someone is a paid-up member of a political party or other organization, they have paid the money needed to become an official member. 0
  • adjective paid-up having paid the due, full, or required fee to be a member of an organization, club, political party, etc 0
  • adjective paid-up denoting a security in which all the instalments have been paid; fully paid 0
  • adjective paid-up denoting all the money that a company has received from its shareholders 0

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Origin of paid-up

First appearance:

before 1870
One of the 26% newest English words
First recorded in 1870-75

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Paid-up

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

paid-up popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 51% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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