SHELLING OUT Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

shelling out

verb

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present participle of shell out

as in spending

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 shelling out So the idea is that Breakaway goers aren’t shelling out all of this extra money just to get to the concert and stay in town. —

Sydney Lake, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026 Amazon shares have dropped nearly 6% in 2026 as Wall Street worried that Big Tech may shelling out too much for data center buildouts. —

Alex Harring, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026 This means the perfectionist in you can zero in on the perfect shade of beige or blue without shelling out for customized covers. —

Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 3 Mar. 2026 Higher global energy prices could lead to consumers paying more for gasoline at the pump and shelling out more for groceries and other goods, at a time when many are already feeling the impacts of elevated inflation. —

Cathy Bussewitz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2026 Otherwise, patients could wind up shelling out hundreds of dollars a month for medications without having that expense chip away at their annual deductibles, which could be thousands of dollars. —

Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026 Everything seemed to go right for pro football last year, from notching a 10% year-over-year viewership gain to nail-biting finishes to the kind of unpredictability in team rankings that keeps fans glued to live telecasts and shelling out huge dollars to attend games. —

Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026 Musk warned Wall Street that as part of these plans, the company would be shelling out a lot of cash in the year ahead — an eye-popping $20 billion, more than double what the company spent on capital expenditures in 2025. —

Camila Domonoske, NPR, 28 Jan. 2026 In contrast, if players remain committed to ARC Raiders, a game that has extremely impressive player retention so far, shelling out $40 for a different extraction game may not be appealing. —

Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026

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Carmen Mejia, who was declared innocent after spending more than 20 years behind bars for a wrongful conviction in a child's death in Texas, faces deportation to her native Honduras because her immigration status lapsed while she was incarcerated, her attorneys said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026
At the time, several regional experts told me that top security and political figures inside the Iraqi Shiite militias and the Houthis were limiting their use of technology, using burner phones and spending minimal time online to prevent Israel from tracking them.

— Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026