Meaning of pay up | Babel Free

Definitions

To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.

ambitransitive

Examples

“At Whitsunday and Martinmas I will have enough to pay up the incumbrance of £3000 due to old Moss's daughter.”

“"Suppose we sell off all the horses, and sell one of your farms, and pay up square?"”

“We could pay up the mortgage on the house, and have something left over.”

“The Citizen gained eighteen subscribers; four old ones paid up their accounts.”

“[T]he decision pushes Simpson's potential financial obligation to a whopping $33.5 million[…]and left Simpson lawyers swearing that there was no way their client could ever pay up.”

“According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.”

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