paid-up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.10 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Of an insurance policy, still in force but with the policyholder no longer paying any premiums (typically resulting in a reduced sum assured).
verb
Alternative form of paid up.
Example Sentences
- "a paid-up member of the organization"
- "A local Chrysler dealer had 68 paid-up back orders for cars."
- "Among Wall Street economists, Mr. Roach has not been a paid-up member of the alarmist camp."
- "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."
- "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."