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PAY UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pay up mean?
• PAY UP (verb)
The verb PAY UP has 1 sense:
1. cancel or discharge a debt
Familiarity information: PAY UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cancel or discharge a debt
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
Context example:
pay up, please!
Hypernyms (to "pay up" is one way to...):
pay (discharge or settle)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pay up"):
liquidate; pay off (eliminate by paying off (debts))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
default (fail to pay up)
Context examples
Not only did he partially pay up his bills, but he had sufficient balance left to redeem his black suit and wheel.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Or you may have to pay up on a court or divorce settlement, back child support, a student loan, or credit card.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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