pony up

verb

|Updated on: 14 Jun 2018

Examples: pony up in a Sentence

Definition of pony up

ponied up; ponying up

transitive verb

: to pay (money) especially in settlement of an account

intransitive verb

: pay

Examples of pony up in a Sentence

despite having good credit, the couple still had to pony up a large down payment for the house

Recent Examples of pony up from the Web

The Bulls drafted Gordon and engineered a draft-day trade that involved ponying up $3 million to the Suns for the rights to Deng.

— k.c. johnson, chicagotribune.com, "20 years since dissolution of the dynasty, Bulls still a long way from the top," 10 June 2018
But since, come the annual trade deadline, many teams will certainly be willing to pony up something more valuable than that compensatory pick, Machado appears a near-lock to be dealt sometime in the next couple of months.

— ted berg, For The Win, "7 teams that could realistically pull off a trade for Manny Machado," 23 May 2018
Professionals who want to sign up must be willing to personally pony up $5,000 of their own cash, or convince their own investors to pay for it.

— rebecca robbins, STAT, "A new VC firm will invest in your startup — and pay for you to get therapy and acupuncture," 23 May 2018
This would likely be due in large part to all the data the park had collected on its guests (in order to achieve immortality for its super-rich owners and anyone else who was willing to pony up for it).

— refinery29.com, "This Westworld Theory About The Valley Beyond Could Change Everything," 12 May 2018
Early routes were in the East but with the public reluctant to pony up 24 cents for mail going from New York to Washington DC, the Post Office sought to show the real time savings by flying airmail from coast to coast.

— eric tegler, Popular Mechanics, "'A Suicide Club': How WWI Pilots Pioneered the Age of Airmail," 9 May 2018
Mr Emanuel, a Democrat, even persuaded Mr Griffin, a Republican, to pony up $1m for his re-election campaign.

— The Economist, "Violent crime is down in Chicago," 3 May 2018
City and state officials have shared few details of their HQ2 talks with Amazon, but have signaled little willingness to pony up the kind of massive subsidy package being offered by other contenders such as Maryland and New Jersey.

— tim logan, BostonGlobe.com, "It’s no HQ2, but Amazon has announced a massive expansion in Boston," 1 May 2018
Good for you, because the rest of us will have to pony up $6,500 for a copy in good condition.

— Fortune, "A Look Into the Dwindling World of Rare Books," 24 May 2018

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