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sprung for

sprung for is the past participle of spring for.

Meaning of spring for

Verb

spring for (third-person singular simple present springs for, present participle springing for, simple past sprang for, past participle sprung for)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To pay for; to offer money.
    • Wal-Mart . . . would pay the town $100,000 in annual taxes and cover much needed road improvements too. The store even agreed to spring for an archaeological dig on the site, once an Indian campground.1993 November 1, Sophfronia Gregory et al., “They're Up Against the Wal”, in Time

Questions about sprung for

What is sprung for the past participle of?
Sprung for is the past participle of spring for.

Words near sprung for in the dictionary

  1. spruit
  2. spruits
  3. sprummer
  4. sprung
  5. sprung back
  6. sprung for
  7. sprung into action
  8. sprung out
  9. sprung rhyme
  10. sprung rhymes
  11. sprung to life

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprung for (page history and authors); spring for (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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