foot the bill

idiom

: to pay for something

His parents footed the bill for his college education.

It's a business lunch, so the company is footing the bill.

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Kia is also footing the bill for the Squid Game reboot for the launch of its refreshed Sportage SUV. —

Emily Dreibelbis Forlini, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024 While the decoupling would keep choice schools from tapping real estate dollars, taxpayers would of course still be footing the bill. —

Peter Greene, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 The cost of footing the bill for all those proposals could cost as much as $9 trillion over the next decade, according to a September 20 analysis from TD Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg. —

Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2024 Meta is currently working on the next version of its Llama model and is continuing to position itself as an AI company—all while relying on ad revenue from its social media platforms to foot the bill. —

Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for foot the bill

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