Dispense
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪˈspɛns/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Dispense is a verb meaning To issue, distribute, or give out.
Meaning
To issue, distribute, or give out.
More Meanings
- To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
- To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
- (particularly in canon law) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
- (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
- (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
Example Sentences
to dispense justice
The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
An optician can dispense spectacles.
While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
Word Forms
- dispenses
- dispensing
- dispensed
- dispence
Synonyms for dispense
Depending on context, synonyms include deal, allot, distribute, lot, administer.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include distribute, allot, deal, lot, administer, dispensation.
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