paid-up

paid-up

1. Fully paid (for).

   a paid-up member of the organization

   • 1964 January 3, “Canada: Spreading Wealth”, in Time:

     A local Chrysler dealer had 68 paid-up back orders for cars.

2. (figurative, sometimes preceded by fully) Full-fledged, wholehearted.
   • 1991 October 6, Floyd Norris, “Services: A Boom Area Goes Bust”, in New York Times, retrieved 2 July 2013:

     Among Wall Street economists, Mr. Roach has not been a paid-up member of the alarmist camp.

   • 2008 February 22, Alex Perry, “A New Challenge to Mugabe”, in Time:

     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.

   • 2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:

     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.

3. (insurance) Of an insurance policy, still in force but with the policyholder no longer paying any premiums (typically resulting in a reduced sum assured).

paid-up

1. Alternative form of paid up.