ante (up)

as in to pay
to give what is owed for if we can't ante up at least half of the overdue rent, we are going to be evicted

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  • Unsecured Financing With unsecured financing, your lender is relying on your promise to pay them back.
    Levi King, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Amazon agreed to pay $1 billion a year to secure the rights to NFL Thursday Night Football back in 2021.
    Alex Cranz, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
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  • High interest credit cards and other debt drain your financial resources and keep you from building wealth, so pay off high interest debt as quickly as possible.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • At the same time, some have gambled that being in Trump’s good graces would be beneficial — and that risk seems to have paid off.
    Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • In among all these itinerant jobs, Robert meets Gladys (Felicity Jones), a young woman who sings in the church choir and becomes the incandescent center of his life.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Rather than adapting existing algorithms, Metal Minds creates solutions from scratch that reflect the physical and chemical processes occurring during steelmaking as accurately as possible while tailoring these solutions to meet clients’ specific needs.
    Svetlana Khachiyan, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Ante (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ante%20%28up%29. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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