paid-up

1. 1.

   paid in advance

   “paid-up insurance”

   “paid-up members”

   Similarpaid

Questions about paid-up

What does paid-up mean?

paid-up means "paid in advance".

How many syllables are in paid-up?

paid-up has 2 syllables and divides as pai-d-up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is paid-up a common word?

paid-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.