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pay up phrasal verb

phrasal verb informal

Definition

to give someone the money that you owe them, especially when you do not want to
Eventually they paid up, but only after receiving several reminders.

(Definition of pay up from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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