shell out
Verb
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Verb
shell out
- (slang, ambitransitive) To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money.
- Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?
- (computing, especially, Unix) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
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