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💵 To provide money 🥊 To resist 🏗️ To build 📢 To display 🛏️ To give shelter 🏷️ To offer for sale 🗳️ To nominate 🍑 To preserve food
to put up

to put up

81 3.7
Give money needed for a purpose
  • phrasal verb
  • /pʊt ʌp/
translation icon : financiar
  • And so for that reason, you have to put up an amount of money that we refer to as margin.
  • put up the money

So let's look at the person who put up the loan.

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Examples

  • The sponsors agreed to put up the funds needed for the charity event.

  • They would put up the money for the shows, they put up the money for the scenery, they put up the money for the security bonds with the union, everything.

    Behind the Burly Q (2010)

  • I put money up for you.

    Creed III (2023)

  • And he decided to put up the $5 million purse, too.

    Warrior (2011)

  • Most African nations are unwilling or unable to put up the money to support an American Studies program.

    Academic text (1992)

  • And so I worked with Group W and Filmation Studios and we each put up half of seven and a half million dollars.

  • Several investors chose to put up capital for the new startup company.

  • In order to launch the project, the partner decided to put up $1 million.

Synonyms

to provide
vsto put up
∞ 1.5

To give something people need or want

focuses on giving money for a specific purpose
to contribute
vsto put up
883 2.7

To give money, help, or ideas to make something work

is used when a single person supplies money for a particular need
to supply
vsto put up
400 1.6

To give things that someone needs or wants

often refers to providing a specific sum of money for a purpose
to offer
vsto put up
218 1.4

Say a price you will pay to buy something

means actually supplying funds for a particular purpose rather than proposing them

Antonyms

to deny
423 1.6

To refuse to let someone have something

to withhold
210 5.1

Refuse to give something someone wants or needs

How Much

to bankroll
29 6.3
to fund
576 3.0
to put up
81 3.7
to contribute
883 2.7
to chip in
31 3.2

Surface Forms

put up infinitive
put up past
put up past participle
putting up present participle
puts up third person singular

Morphology

put + up

The verbs 'put' (place) and particle 'up' (away/upward) give a loose, compositional sense of placing something away, which can suggest storing or keeping. However, the specific meaning 'preserve food in a can/tin' is a specialized, conventionalized extension (and somewhat dialectal) that is not fully predictable from the parts, so it is only partially transparent to learners.

Etymology

Put up (to provide money) comes from the image of someone placing money on the table when a plan needs payment, showing they will pay their share. So 'put up' means 'provide or supply money'.