stump up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Citrini predicts that investors will stump up fresh capital, making it “more likely now that Leopold causes the bottom than causes AI to continue going down.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
He just wanted to be noticed for using his body "in a unique way" - and Villa did, paying £2.75m for his services as Celtic failed to stump up the cash.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
A wary Tinseltown reluctantly coalesced around the Netflix bid, seeing it as the lesser of two evils, but Paramount's willingness to stump up ever greater sums eventually saw the streamer withdraw.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Second, investors need to stump up enough to finance the losses—which OpenAI alone estimated at more than $150 billion—until then.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
“The sticky stuff on my arms,” she said impatiently, and then she held a rounded stump up to her mouth, bit off a cooked chunk, and spit it into the trash.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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