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Thesaurus: shell out

verb

    To distribute (money) as payment: disburse, expend, give, lay out, outlay, pay (out), spend. Informal fork out (or over) (or up). See save/waste.

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Idioms: shell out
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Pay, hand over, as in We had to shell out $1,000 for auto repairs. This expression transfers taking a seed such as a pea or nut out of its pod or shell to taking money out of one's pocket. [Colloquial; c. 1800]


Antonyms: shell out
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v

Definition: give
Antonyms: receive, take


Hacker Slang: shell out
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[Unix] To spawn an interactive subshell from within a program (e.g., a mailer or editor). “Bang foo runs foo in a subshell, while bang alone shells out.


WordNet: shell out
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The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: administer or bestow, as in small portions
  Synonyms: distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out


 
 

 

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