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Dispense

/dɪsˈpɛns/

Cost, expenditure.

📖 Definitions of "Dispense"

noun
  1. 1

    Cost, expenditure.

  2. 2

    The act of dispensing, dispensation.

verb
  1. 1

    To issue, distribute, or give out.

  2. 2

    To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

    "to dispense justice"

  3. 3

    To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

    "An optician can dispense spectacles."

  4. 4

    To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.

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