0 past simple and past participle of cough --
1 to force air out of your lungs through your throat with a short, loud sound: --
Money would have to be coughed up immediately for those employees who chose to cash in their notices.
It was discovered because somebody "coughed", as they say in the criminal world.
Certainly no one coughed and, as far as possible, no one breathed until the matron had been round and gone away.
But it coughed up the £275 million all the same.
I say that £6,000,000 had to be coughed up by a million workers.
That was automatically coughed up by the taxpayer and no questions were asked.
One and a half billion must be coughed up.
It is money coughed up by you and me and all taxpayers and so it has to be subjected to proper scrutiny.
