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.
Despite a past in an inner-city comprehensive, I am a fully paid-up member of themiddle classes now.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
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.
...a fully paid-up member of the Labour Party.
paid-up in British English
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
3.
denoting all the money that a company has received from its shareholders
the paid-up capital
4.
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
paid-up in Insurance
(peɪd ʌp)
adjective
(Insurance: Life insurance)
A paid-up insurance policy is one for which the payment of premiums has stopped.
A fully paid-up policy is one remaining in force after payment of all the premiums due under theterms of the policy.
A nonforfeiture option contained in most life insurance policies allows the insuredto elect to have the cash surrender value of the policy used to purchase a paid-up policy for a reduced amount of insurance.
A paid-up insurance policy is one for which the payment of premiums has stopped.
Examples of 'paid-up' in a sentence
paid-up
Anita walked out into Mount Pleasant not only a paid-up member of FIGHTBACK, but a fully equipped one too.
Murray, Stephen DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION (2002)
He knew hackers tended to be fully paid-up members of the paranoid tendency, but that didn't mean they were always wrong.
Val McDermid THE LAST TEMPTATION (2002)
`Fully accredited, paid-up member, officer of the authority, all that kind of stuff.