part with

part with (third-person singular simple present parts with, present participle parting with, simple past and past participle parted with)

1. 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.

   • a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair:

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

   • 1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:

     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.