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What does shell out mean?

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Verb
  1. (informal) To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money.
  2. (computing) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
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The Bankruptcy Act will implement a means test to determine ability to shell out at least a portion of arrears.
Despite my earlier misgivings, this place is a find for those ready to shell out serious gelt.
Your poor pal has just made a terrifying investment and, as you say, is having to shell out for new furnishings and other bits and bobs.
Strict rent control laws here hold down rents but give landlords little incentive to shell out for earthquake proofing.
It will have an extractor to pull the fired shell out of the chamber, and an ejector to kick it out of the gun.
And if I ask, she'll turn on the waterworks, and then I have to shell out more money to buy tissues.

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