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dispense English

Meaning dispense meaning

What does dispense mean?
Definitions in simple English

dispense Verb

— When something dispenses an object, it means that it is the object, to distribute it. — To throw away, or ignore. She made us all feel relaxed and comfortable by dispensing with the old formalities.

dispense

— verb (= administer, deal, shell out, dole out) administer or bestow, as in small portions administer critical remarks to everyone present dole out some money shell out pocket money for the children deal a blow to someone the machine dispenses soft drinks — verb grant a dispensation; grant an exemption I was dispensed from this terrible task — verb (= administer) give or apply (medications)

Synonyms dispense synonyms

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dispense English » English

distribute allot administer deal share give out exempt deliver deal out allocate parcel out hand out dole out divide dish out assign shell out mete out lot award split sell scatter pass out partition mete issue free divide into parts confer bestow apportion yield whitewash waive unfreeze uncork unchain unblock supply subdivide stratify split up spell share out set free serve out separate section screen off

Topics dispense topics

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Conjugation dispense conjugation

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dispense · verb

Examples dispense examples

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Simple sentences

I can't dispense with coffee at breakfast.
I can dispense with her help.
It seems unlikely that any society could completely dispense with myths.
I cannot dispense with a coat in winter.

Movie subtitles

Mrs. Claypool has decided to dispense with your services immediately.
Dispense with my services?
Move we dispense with it.
I demand Mr. Deeds. dispense with side remarks and confine himself to facts.
I'm not accusing anybody, but until it's cleared up, I think we'll dispense with jam for breakfast.
Let's dispense with the polite drinking, shall we?
He might choose to dispense with MY services.
Let's dispense with the charm!
I will dispense.
And I suggest that we dispense with formalities. and examine the defenses of your city.
In that case I shall dispense with the whipping.
Now, young lady, we're here to dispense justice.
I would very much prefer that you dispense with my services on these dates with my daughter, sir.
Well, I can also dispense with your company!
Shall we dispense with them?
Dispense with it.
May I suggest here and now that we dispense with all the soft soap.
Couldn't we dispense with that?
Now, my wife, she is.. She is licensed by law to dispense the medicine.
Such portions of the Krell science, as I may from time to time deem suitable and safe, I shall dispense to Earth.
Dr Lavignac came that afternoon. to dispense enlightened but, alas, useless remedies.
I'll dispense with the soap.
I move we dispense with the reading.
We will dispense with the reading of the minutes.
We will dispense with reading of the minutes.
This is a general court-martial. We'll dispense with unnecessary formalities.
We'll dispense with naval rank this cruise, Bonnet.
I cannot dispense life and death lightly.
Your Honor, from this point forward. I would like to dispense with counsel and conduct my own defense.
I'm afraid I'll have to dispense with you.
Uhura, tell the high adviser that we request to dispense with the welcoming ceremonies due to the emergency, that we're beaming directly down to the mine entrance in order to ensure the fastest possible delivery of the zenite.

News and current affairs

If the world can dispense justice only at the expense of the weak and to the advantage of the strong, it should stick to the older tools of crime prevention: force and negotiation, and leave justice out of it.
Senior US officials continue to say that there is no infrastructure to dispense medicines, even as these officials visit hospitals that possess the necessary doctors, clinics, nurses, and pharmacies.
As a recent study by Bruegel has shown, the EU as a whole could, with some effort, dispense with gas imports from Russia.
I firmly doubt the need to dispense with deterrence.
Those who dispense money, he argued, should look only at new research ideas, not at the organizational charts of research institutions.
These populists promise solutions that dispense with the habits and norms of moderation, notably with centrist democratic policies and an internationalism that seeks to promote peace and prosperity.
Now he wanted to dispense with it.
By highlighting positive models of judging and legal advocacy, the trials may stimulate public demand for domestic tribunals that dispense justice fairly and effectively.
But if it turns toward the past in looking for its future, and if it believes it can dispense with investments in the future in favor of shameless personal self-enrichment, it will continue to lose ground.
Such programs cannot dispense with the need for government resolve, as Greece's travails demonstrate.
In the Syrian case, with one caveat, Israel decided to dispense with the preliminaries and simply destroy the reactor.
Western leaders should see no need to dispense with the truth; the facts are on their side.
The Kibaki government should be acknowledged for gracefully conceding defeat, but true credit goes to the Kenyan public for its unwillingness to allow the authorities to dispense with the rule of law.

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