English-Spanish translations for shell out

Definition of shell out

• To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money
• To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell

Synonyms

• cough up
• fork out
• fork over

Examples

• Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?

Related words

• housing shell
• come out of one's shell
• come out of shell