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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks" [syn: distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 1801 pay

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you shell out for something, you spend a lot of money on it. (INFORMAL) You won't have to shell out a fortune for it... ...an insurance premium which saves you from having to shell out for repairs... = fork out PHRASAL VERB: V P n for/on n, V P for/on n

Moby Thesaurus

accord, administer, afford, allot, allow, award, bestow, bestow on, budget, communicate, confer, cost, cost out, deal, deal out, disburse, dish out, dispense, dole, dole out, donate, expend, extend, fork out, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, go through, grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, incur costs, invest, issue, lavish, lay out, let have, mete, mete out, offer, open the purse, outlay, pay, pay out, pour, present, proffer, put out, rain, render, run through, schedule, serve, shower, sink money in, slip, snow, spend, splurge, squander, tender, throw money around, vouchsafe, yield