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SHELL OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Administer or bestow, as in small portions
Example:
the machine dispenses soft drinks
Synonyms:
administer; allot; deal; deal out; dish out; dispense; distribute; dole out; lot; mete out; parcel out; shell out
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "shell out" is one way to...):
give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shell out"):
allot; assign; portion (give out)
reallot (allot again)
deal (distribute cards to the players in a game)
apply; give (give or convey physically)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
