From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpaid-up memberpaid-up member informalPAY FORsomeone 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-up
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paid-up member• He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.• When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.• Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.• Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?• At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.• 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. 