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stump up

stump up verb: to pay for something, often with reluctance.

Verb

stump up (third-person singular simple present stumps up, present participle stumping up, simple past and past participle stumped up)

  1. (UK, informal) To pay for something, often with reluctance.
    • Jim stumped up for the cinema tickets, but I paid for the coffees afterwards.
    • Not least because last spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that HM Treasury's new northern base would be in Darlington. If that doesn't encourage the Treasury to stump up cash to upgrade the town's station, then I fear nothing will.2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 53

Forms of stump up

third-person singular presentstumps up
present participlestumping up
past participlestumped up
paststumped up

Questions about stump up

What does stump up mean?
Stump up means to pay for something, often with reluctance.
What part of speech is stump up?
Stump up is a verb.
What is the past tense of stump up?
The past tense of stump up is stumped up.

Words near stump up in the dictionary

  1. stump speech
  2. stump speeches
  3. stump stabber
  4. stump stabbers
  5. stump tracery
  6. stump up
  7. stump-cam
  8. stump-cams
  9. stump-tailed macaque
  10. stump-tailed macaques
  11. stump-water

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