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FORK OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To surrender someone or something to another
Example:
fork over the money
Synonyms:
deliver; fork out; fork over; fork up; hand over; render; turn in
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "fork out" is one way to...):
give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fork out"):
bail (deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period)
give away (formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody
