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
Also under the settlement, the Port will be required to shell out $1.3 million to the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment for use in restoration projects tied to the L.A. Harbor and San Pedro Bay, with most of the money earmarked for a project designed to remove waste.
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Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 17 June 2025
If billionaires don’t want aircrafts all to themselves—or don’t want to shell out the big bucks to store, maintain and staff their own planes—another option is fractional ownership, which means purchasing a share of a plane and access to it for a proportional number of hours per year.
—Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
The news comes at a time when the university has been forced to shell out more than $10 million a week to keep vital research afloat while continuing to pay graduate workers and scientists.
—Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
Studios and streamers aren’t buying many indie films, and a rocky economy has left corporate backers less willing to shell out multimillion-dollar checks.
—Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 28 May 2025
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Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 17 June 2025
If billionaires don’t want aircrafts all to themselves—or don’t want to shell out the big bucks to store, maintain and staff their own planes—another option is fractional ownership, which means purchasing a share of a plane and access to it for a proportional number of hours per year.
—Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
The news comes at a time when the university has been forced to shell out more than $10 million a week to keep vital research afloat while continuing to pay graduate workers and scientists.
—Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
Studios and streamers aren’t buying many indie films, and a rocky economy has left corporate backers less willing to shell out multimillion-dollar checks.
—Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 28 May 2025
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Prosecutors allege that one of the defendants and other co-conspirators spent three days on-site scouting an international jewelry show in San Mateo, Calif., including making multiple calls to each other, to plan the robbery.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
18 June 2025
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Most entrepreneurs spend their time trying to optimize their funnel, fix their ads or tweak their landing page.—
Rudy Mawer,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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Letarte expects teams to pay more attention to their In-Season Challenge competitors as the five-race tournament plays out, and the potential $1 million draws closer.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
26 June 2025
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Hochul disagrees with Mamdani’s plan to raise taxes on the rich to pay for his plans as mayor, such as free child care and buses.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
26 June 2025
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In the report, the group laid out its guidelines, which recommend taking cultural context into account when determining how to display or dispose of remains, given that practices such as cremation or postmortem display may be considered traditional by one culture and taboo by another.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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Years ago, Bryan Smith laid out a tell-sell-test-consult-co-create framework.—
George Bradt,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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“Shell out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shell%20out. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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