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UK
/dɪspˈɛns/
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[ US /dɪˈspɛns/ ]
[ US /dɪˈspɛns/ ]
VERB
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grant a dispensation; grant an exemption
I was dispensed from this terrible task - give or apply (medications)
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administer or bestow, as in small portions
dole out some money
the machine dispenses soft drinks
administer critical remarks to everyone present
deal a blow to someone
shell out pocket money for the children
How To Use dispense In A Sentence
- Nothing much happened except that I discovered the automatic paper towel dispenser and proceeded to contort my body into various positions to get the thing to work.
- So much the better if you have a cache of slightly obscure references that you can dispense, especially if these bear only tangential relationship to what you are discussing.
- Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
- One reason for the easing in the logjam was the Senate's traditional desire to dispense with blocs of nominees shortly before adjourning for recess, which the Senate did in the early hours of Friday morning. Federal Posts Fill Up Amid Senate Thaw
- Like I said. kornbelt888: That, however, does not dispense with the problem of the ultimate ontological question of what is primary, self-existent. Dawkins and ID
- As Toronto theatre critics dispense increasingly disparate opinions, some shows are savaged in one rag and lionized in another.
- The organization dispenses free health care to the poor.
- It will be a criminal offence to hold yourself out as a Chinese medical practitioner or a herbal dispenser of Chinese medicines, and a range of other appellations, if in fact one has not been registered by the board.
- As Mr. Connelly observes, the dispensers of population-control grants often enjoyed a kind of pasha existence. The War Against Fertility
- In the Pacific Northwest, for example, apple growers adorn their trees with dispensers that saturate the air with the chemical sex attractant, or pheromone, of female codling moths.