单词 | to pay up |
释义 | > as lemmasto pay up to pay up 1. a. transitive. To settle in full (a debt, an account, etc.); to make up (arrears of payment); to come up with (money) in payment. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (transitive)] quit?c1225 acquita1250 to pay up1434 satisfy1437 discharge1439 defease1480 persolve1548 solve1558 defray1576 affray1584 clear1600 to pay off1607 extinguish1630 to lay downa1640 wipe1668 settle1688 sink1694 retrieve1711 to clear up1726 balance1740 liquidate1755 to clear off1766 square1821 amortize1830 1434 Rolls of Parl. V. 437/2 The residue to be paied up to the Kyng. 1728 L. Theobald Double Falshood ii. iii. 20 My Mother quickly Paid up her Vows to Love, and married You. 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 27 If..he should voluntarily pay up the abatement. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 71 Arrears were paid up. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson xiv. 188 He had a very clear notion of the size of his indebtedness to that man, and was willing to pay it up in full. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxix. 354 We can make him pay up something, I'm sure. 1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 497 I tell him he can stay in the house, the rent's paid up anyway. b. intransitive. To hand over or come up with money as payment; to settle a debt.Now frequently with implications of unwillingness or compulsion. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay up or out to shell out1821 dub1823 stump1828 to stump up1836 tip1847 cash1854 to ante up1861 to fund up1888 pony1894 brass1898 cough1920 to pay up1941 to dig down1942 1617 N. Assheton Jrnl. (1848) 62 To Portfield: ther paid up and made merrie. 1850 W. Colton Three Years in Calif. xiii. 196/7 I told them..the only way to get out of the scrape was to pay up. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xiii. 429 Now, then!..Pay up! 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Nov. 3/1 It is better for tenants to be compelled to pay up smart than to allow them to heap up a great burden of arrears. 1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber iii. 39 Though her contribution was frequently several terms in arrear, she generally paid up in the end. 1941 J. D. Carr Case of Constant Suicides xiv. 190 The insurance companies would have been compelled to pay up. 2003 Econ. Times (Nexis) 17 Sept. Officials claimed that in spite of repeated notices, the defaulters had not paid up. 2. transitive. To make full payment for (something) or to (someone); to hand over money owed to (a person). rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [verb (intransitive)] > pay in full and discharge to pay up1647 to pay off1742 1647 Perfect Weekly Acct. No. 26. sig. Cc2 That the Army may be presently paid up, equally to those that have deserted it. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. ix. 429 The establishment was paid up and discharged. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 12 Oct. 1/4 I think you had better go and pay him [sc. a merchant] up. 1988 M. Spark Far Cry from Kensington iii. 31 Wanda's sewing-machine was the most expensive thing in the room: Wanda had just finished paying it up. < as lemmas |
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