shell out
59 synonyms found
- accord
- administer
- afford
- allot
- allow
- bestow
- bestow on
- budget
- communicate
- confer
- cost out
- deal
- deal out
- disburse
- dish out
- dispense
- dole
- dole out
- donate
- expend
- fork out
- gift with
- give
- give freely
- give out
- go through
- hand out
- heap
- help to
- impart
- incur costs
- invest
- lavish
- lay out
- let have
- mete
- mete out
- open the purse
- outlay
- pay
- pay out
- pour
- present
- proffer
- put out
- rain
- render
- run through
- schedule
- serve
- shower
- sink money in
- snow
- spend
- splurge
- squander
- throw money around
- vouchsafe
- yield
Definition
(v) :
to pay money; especially, to pay a great deal of money; (computing, especially Unix) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell
"do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?"