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Paid-up

adjective

Paid in advance. "Paid-up members"

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"Paid-up" Quotes from Famous Books

... granted a patent or charter to one great company with what, for the time, was an enormous paid-up capital, in order that the India trade might be made secure and the Spaniards steadily confronted in what they had considered their most impregnable possessions. All former trading companies were invited to merge themselves in the Universal East India Company, ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... dividend was announced at twelve and a quarter per cent of the paid-up capital: the accounts from the copper-mine sent the dividend up to a still greater height, and carried the shares to an extraordinary premium. In the third year of the concern, the house of Hobson Brothers, of ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

Words linked to "Paid-up" : paid