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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
paid-up
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ Stone was then, as now, a fully paid-up Thatcher supporter, and a tireless polemicist.
▪ Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
▪ Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
▪ Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
▪ At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
■ NOUN
member
▪ The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
▪ Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
▪ Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
▪ 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.
▪ He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
▪ At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Equitable does not allow paid-up contracts, so policyholders have to encash their plans or continue to make contributions.
▪ For 30 years, he was a paid-up and apparently loyal supporter of its policies.
▪ Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
▪ Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.
▪ Stone was then, as now, a fully paid-up Thatcher supporter, and a tireless polemicist.
▪ The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
▪ The hotel is more paid-up luxury.
Wiktionary
paid-up

vb. (alternative form of paid up English)

WordNet
paid-up

adj. paid in advance; "paid-up insurance"; "paid-up members"

Usage examples of "paid-up".

The prospectors paid full fare to get to Peggys Planet, or their companies did, and every one of them surely had a paid-up return ticket in his pocket.

It was only then that he was reminded, by coldly practical lawyers, that she owned outright the controlling percentage of stock in Ashville Pharmacal Products, which had been founded almost indulgently as a toy for her to play with, that he had even laughingly signed a document that she brought him in the early days specifically declaring that he did not in any way regard it as community property, and that the most he could claim from the Corporation, aside from his rights as the personal holder of one paid-up share, would be the few hundred dollars he had advanced to get it started.

What you might accurately call the fully paid-up members of the St John hardcore, people whose commitment goes a bit deeper than just paying to get CFC on their cable system.

Especially one with a paid-up membership in the Bronze Bra Guild and a husband who just happens to be a mathemagical genius.

Although the black trade unions are not officially recognized by the government of the day, yet the secret union of mineworkers is one of the most representative and powerful of all black associations, with more than a hundred thousand paid-up members.