Meaning of part with | Babel Free

Definitions

To let go of; to give up; to relinquish.

Equivalents

Examples

“I really love this new stereo system but I'm not willing to part with the cash to buy it.”

“Celia, for thy sake, I part / With all that grew so near my heart.”

“But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.”

“Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see part, with. But they always parted with an increased regard for one another.”

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