as in to spend
to hand over or use up in payment
we shelled out an obscene amount of money for those concert tickets
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Recent Examples of shell out
To shell out thousands of dollars for a piece of gear like that seemed ridiculous.
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New Atlas, 3 Mar. 2025
Another group called Building America’s Future, which has received funding from Musk in the past, shelled out $1.6 million for a TV ad campaign on behalf of Schimel.
—Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Mar. 2025
The state has shelled out more than $1.3 billion since the start of fiscal year 2024 on emergency assistance shelters, a program initially created to house families with children and pregnant women but has since come to also care for migrants in Massachusetts, according to state data.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Most of the time, though, its the residents or the neighborhood associations who shell out the money.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2025
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New Atlas, 3 Mar. 2025
Another group called Building America’s Future, which has received funding from Musk in the past, shelled out $1.6 million for a TV ad campaign on behalf of Schimel.
—Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Mar. 2025
The state has shelled out more than $1.3 billion since the start of fiscal year 2024 on emergency assistance shelters, a program initially created to house families with children and pregnant women but has since come to also care for migrants in Massachusetts, according to state data.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Most of the time, though, its the residents or the neighborhood associations who shell out the money.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shell out
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Some 650,000 visitors are expected to spend some time in the area over a month-long period.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2025
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But in real life, the British actor doesn’t spend much time thinking about money.—
Nicolas Vega,
CNBC,
26 Mar. 2025
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Con Edison also paid more than $130 million in charges associated with the 11-month outage at the plant.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2025
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There is a price to be paid for that much larger sensor though—the GFX100RF is larger and heavier than any of the X100 cameras.—
Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
22 Mar. 2025
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Before the call, Russia was expected to lay out its conditions for a break in the fighting during the call, which could include all weapons shipments to Ukraine being halted, according to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg.—
Holly Ellyatt,Kevin Breuninger,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2025
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Details of the encounter are scant — laid out in a narrative that runs less than two pages in an affidavit for an arrest warrant that Escondido police submitted last month.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Shell out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shell%20out. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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