shell out

shell out
Synonyms and related words:
accord, administer, afford, allot, allow, award, bestow, bestow on, budget, communicate, confer, cost, cost out, deal, deal out, disburse, dish out, dispense, dole, dole out, donate, expend, extend, fork out, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, go through, grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, incur costs, invest, issue, lavish, lay out, let have, mete, mete out, offer, open the purse, outlay, pay, pay out, pour, present, proffer, put out, rain, render, run through, schedule, serve, shower, sink money in, slip, snow, spend, splurge, squander, tender, throw money around, vouchsafe, yield

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • shell out — (something) to pay money. The insurance giant estimates that in Texas alone it will have to shell out $85 million to settle these claims. How much does the company expect to shell out for a solution to the problem? Usage notes: usually said about …   New idioms dictionary

  • shell out — [v] give ante up, disburse, expend, fork over*, hand over, lay out, outlay, pay, pay for, pay out, spend; concept 341 Ant. receive, take …   New thesaurus

  • shell out — verb administer or bestow, as in small portions administer critical remarks to everyone present dole out some money shell out pocket money for the children deal a blow to someone the machine dispenses soft drinks • Syn: ↑distribute, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • shell out — UK US shell out Phrasal Verb with shell({{}}/ʃel/ verb INFORMAL ► to pay money for something, especially when the cost is unexpected and not wanted: »If we lose the case, we ll be forced to shell out. shell out sth »Courts have ordered tobacco… …   Financial and business terms

  • shell out — PHRASAL VERB If you shell out for something, you spend a lot of money on it. [INFORMAL] [V P n for/on n] You won t have to shell out a fortune for it... [V P n] If I m shelling out a few hundred pounds, I don t want someone telling me what I can… …   English dictionary

  • shell out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms shell out : present tense I/you/we/they shell out he/she/it shells out present participle shelling out past tense shelled out past participle shelled out informal to spend a lot of money on something Since… …   English dictionary

  • shell out — verb a) To pay money, to disburse ; especially, to pay a great deal of money. Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package? b) (computing, especially Unix) To use a programs shell escape function to execute an unrelated command… …   Wiktionary

  • shell out — v. (colloq.) (B) ( to pay ) they had to shell out money to their creditors * * * [ ʃel aʊt] (colloq.) (B) ( to pay ) they had to shell out money to their creditors …   Combinatory dictionary

  • shell out — {v.}, {informal} To pay or spend. * /Dick had to shell out a lot of money for his new car./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • shell out — {v.}, {informal} To pay or spend. * /Dick had to shell out a lot of money for his new car./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • shell out — phr verb Shell out is used with these nouns as the object: ↑cash, ↑money …   Collocations dictionary

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