"pay up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pays up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pay<,,paid> up"
      },
      "expansion": "pay up (third-person singular simple present pays up, present participle paying up, simple past and past participle paid up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, Horatio Alger, chapter 2, in Herbert Carter's Legacy",
          "text": "We could pay up the mortgage on the house, and have something left over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 16, in The Fortune Hunter",
          "text": "The Citizen gained eighteen subscribers; four old ones paid up their accounts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Taran Provost, “$25 Million”, in Time",
          "text": "[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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time."
      ],
      "id": "en-pay_up-en-verb-fggJEffG",
      "links": [
        [
          "in total",
          "in total"
        ],
        [
          "owe",
          "owe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive and transitive) To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "transitive"
          ],
          "word": "pay off"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pays up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pay<,,paid> up"
      },
      "expansion": "pay up (third-person singular simple present pays up, present participle paying up, simple past and past participle paid up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1875, Horatio Alger, chapter 2, in Herbert Carter's Legacy",
          "text": "We could pay up the mortgage on the house, and have something left over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 16, in The Fortune Hunter",
          "text": "The Citizen gained eighteen subscribers; four old ones paid up their accounts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Taran Provost, “$25 Million”, in Time",
          "text": "[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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "in total",
          "in total"
        ],
        [
          "owe",
          "owe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive and transitive) To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "pay off"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay up"
}