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paid-up

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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paid-upFor 30 years, he was a paid-up and apparently loyal supporter of its policies.Equitable does not allow paid-up contracts, so policyholders have to encash their plans or continue to make contributions.Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.The hotel is more paid-up luxury.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.Stone was then, as now, a fully paid-up Thatcher supporter, and a tireless polemicist.
ˌpaid-ˈup adjectiveChineseSyllable
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paid-up
ˌpaid-ˈup adjective British English informal
1. a 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 circuit
2. paid-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.


paid-upBrE /ˈpeɪd ʌp/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpeɪd ʌp/ 🔊 adjective [only before noun] having paid all the money necessary to be a member of a club or an organization 已付清会费的;已缴款的a fully paid-up member会费完全付清的会员(BrE, informal) strongly supporting sb/sth 坚决支持的;付出全部心力的a fully paid-up environmental campaigner全力投入的环保运动者