spring (for)

as in to pay
to give what is owed for offered to spring for dinner for the whole gang

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Verb
  • While Prime members get free same-day grocery delivery for orders over $25, customers without a Prime membership must pay a $12.99 fee (no matter what the order size is).
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Arizona school districts spend millions monitoring students online At least 52 Arizona school districts or charter schools have paid for monitoring software in the past five years, according to GovSpend, a company that tracks government spending data.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Drake has long followed a similar flood-the-market philosophy, and it’s paid off for him.
    Xander Zellner, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Clearly, the experiment paid off: at the table next to us, all four diners ordered a second round of spicy pickled palomas.
    Angela Lian, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • On Rosh Hashanah of 1944, Fernande met a young American Jewish soldier named David Snegg at the Grand Synagogue in Paris.
    Marc Snegg, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In addition to addressing the crowd, Eminem also met some fans and hung out with a few, again thanking them for their support over the past quarter century.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025
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“Spring (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spring%20%28for%29. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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