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paid-upˌpaid-ˈup adjective British English informal - Equitable does not allow paid-up contracts, so policyholders have to encash their plans or continue to make contributions.
- For 30 years, he was a paid-up and apparently loyal supporter of its policies.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.
- Stone was then, as now, a fully paid-up Thatcher supporter, and a tireless polemicist.
- The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
- The hotel is more paid-up luxury.
ADVERB► fully· Stone was then, as now, a fully paid-up Thatcher supporter, and a tireless polemicist.· Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.· Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?· Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.· At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency. NOUN► member· The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.· Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.· Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?· When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.· Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.· He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.· At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency. ► a fully paid-up member of something- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
► paid-up member- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.
1a fully paid-up member of something if someone is a fully paid-up member of a particular group, they strongly support what that group likes or believes in: a fully paid-up member of the celebrity circuit2paid-up member someone who has paid the money needed to be a member of a club, political party etc: The competition is open to all paid-up members of the Women’s Institute. |