Dispense

Verb

 * 1) To issue, distribute, or put out.
 * 2) *1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 40:
 * The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
 * 1) To eliminate or do without–used intransitively with with.
 * I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.

Noun

 * 1)  Cost, expenditure.
 * 2)  The act of dispensing, dispensation.
 * , II.xii:
 * what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].

Adverbs for Dispense
vicariously; bountifully; gracefully; liberally; naturally; mercifully; divinely; providentially; frugally.

Synonyms for Dispense
sell, dole out, allot, apportion, assign, distribute, apply, execute, administer, carry out, excuse, exempt, release.

Antonyms for Dispense
retain, keep back, absorb, take in.

Derived terms

 * dispensary

Related terms

 * dispend
 * dispensable
 * dispensation
 * dispensative
 * dispensatory

Thesaurus
OK, abolish, abstain from, accord, administer, admit, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apply, apportion, assign, award, bestow, bestow on, bestrew, broadcast, cancel, carry out, circumfuse, communicate, conduct, confer, consent, deal, deal out, diffract, diffuse, direct, disburse, discharge, dish out, dispense with, disperse, dispose, dispose of, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, divide, divvy, do away with, do without, dole, dole out, donate, eliminate, enforce, eschew, execute, extend, fan out, forgo, fork out, forswear, furnish, get rid of, gift, gift with, give, give away, give freely, give leave, give out, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, give up, grant, hand out, hawk, heap, help to, huckster, ignore, impart, implement, issue, lavish, leave, let, let have, make possible, measure, measure out, mete, mete out, offer, okay, operate, overscatter, oversow, overspread, parcel out, pass around, pass out, pay out, peddle, permit, portion out, pour, present, proffer, propagate, provide, publish, radiate, rain, refuse, reject, release, relinquish, remove, render, renounce, retail, say the word, scatter, serve, share out, shell out, shower, slip, snow, sow, sow broadcast, spare, splay, spoon out, spread, spread out, strew, superintend, supervise, supply, tender, utter, vend, vouchsafe, waive, yield

Etymology
From despenser: (Modern French dépenser:) <  dispensare:, frequentative of dispendere: < dis-: + pendere:.

Verb

 * Bulgarian: ,


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Bulgarian: минавам без


 * Finnish: jättää väliin,

Anagrams

 * pendisse

Noun
dispense



Anagrams

 * pendessi