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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David Weissman, executive director of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, said the deal was struck based on promises that taxpayers and ratepayers would not foot the bill and large amounts of battery storage have drastically improved grid reliability.
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Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 25 June 2024
But if Minooka needed more infrastructure spending to cope with the flood of trucks, its taxpayers could have to foot the bill unless the village can beat out hundreds of other towns in competition for state and federal road-building grants.
—John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2024
That’s almost funny after the governor, who will foot the bill for this National Guard deployment, spent the better part of a billion dollars covering overtime subway shifts for the NYPD over the past couple years.
—Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2024
Some conservatives in Congress have raised questions about footing the bill, noting that the bridge had never received federal funding.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 11 June 2024
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Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 25 June 2024
But if Minooka needed more infrastructure spending to cope with the flood of trucks, its taxpayers could have to foot the bill unless the village can beat out hundreds of other towns in competition for state and federal road-building grants.
—John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2024
That’s almost funny after the governor, who will foot the bill for this National Guard deployment, spent the better part of a billion dollars covering overtime subway shifts for the NYPD over the past couple years.
—Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2024
Some conservatives in Congress have raised questions about footing the bill, noting that the bridge had never received federal funding.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 11 June 2024
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