put sb through sth
(EDUCATION) — phrasal verb with put /pʊt/ verb (present tense putting, past tense and past participle put)Definition
› to pay for someone to study at school, college, or university: It's costing them a lot of money to put their children through school. She's putting herself through college.Paying and spending money
(Definition of put sb through sth (EDUCATION) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- contributory adjective
- discharge noun (PERFORMANCE)
- make sth/it worth your while idiom
- match sth pound for pound idiom
- means noun (MONEY)
- money doesn't grow on trees idiom
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- pay verb (BUY)
- payable adjective
- payee noun
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- run to sth phrasal verb (MONEY)
- self-financing adjective
- settle verb (PAY)
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