part with
verb1
To let go of; to give up; to relinquish.
- 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.a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair:
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- 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.1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see part, with. But they always parted with an increased regard for one another.