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Definition: DISBURSING |
DISBURSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Disburse |
Date "DISBURSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Crosswords: DISBURSING |
| English words defined with "DISBURSING": deduct, disbursal, disbursement, Disbursing officer ♦ financial officer ♦ outlay ♦ recoup ♦ spending ♦ treasurer ♦ withhold. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DISBURSING": Administrative Capability ♦ DIRECTOR, FUNDRAISING, disbursing agent. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DISBURSING": Disburse. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Master Sergeant Gayle Thomas and Hiroe Aoki, both members of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service-Japan, use a centralized disbursing system to verify yen payments to local vendors here. The mission of DFAS-J is to provide finance and accounting ser. |  | Photographed in her winter dress uniform, circa 1918-19. During World War I she served at the Commandant's Building, Administrative Disbursing Office, New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Seychelles | The Family Tribunal also was responsible for collecting and disbursing child support payments made by family members. (references) |
Economic History | Cote d'Ivoire | Meanwhile, the European Union is cautiously resuming aid, and the government has worked down its arrears with the World Bank which will likely soon once again begin disbursing on several million dollars worth of projects that have been on hold. (references) |
Political Economy | Nigeria | In June 2000, the Federal Government began disbursing some of the funds derived from oil and minerals production to the states. (references) |
Trade | Indonesia | The World Bank is the second largest aid donor to Indonesia, disbursing $659 million in 1998, $2.1 billion in 1999 and an estimated $530 million in 2000. It has a large resident office in Jakarta. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DISBURSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "DISBURSING" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DISBURSING": disbursing agent ♦ Disbursing officer. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DISBURSING": fast-disbursing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disbursing clerk | 3 |
association clerk disbursing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DISBURSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | æ"¯å‡º (Disburse, Disbursed, Disbursement). (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | betalingsformidler (disbursing agent, paying agency, paying agent). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | déboursant, payant. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | bezahlend (anteing, paying), auszahlend. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 출납. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | isbursingday organismo que efectúa el desembolso (disbursing agent, paying agency, paying agent), organismo pagador (disbursing agent, paying agency, paying agent), organismo liquidador (disbursing agent, paying agency, paying agent). (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DISBURSING" (pronounced di'sber"sing) |
| 5 | -b er" s i ng | reimbursing. |
| 4 | -er" s i ng | coercing, conversing, cursing, dispersing, nursing, rehearsing, reversing, traversing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-g-i-i-n-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: subsiding. | |
-2 letters: birdings, bruising, disusing, subrings, sunbirds. | |
-3 letters: birding, busings, bussing, dissing, issuing, ridings, risings, sidings, subring, sudsing, sunbird, ungirds. | |
-4 letters: biding, bindis, brings, bruins, burins, busing, dingus, during, grinds, indris, riding, rising, siding, siring, ungird, unrigs. | |
-5 letters: bindi, binds, birds, brigs, bring, brins, bruin, bunds, bungs, burds, burgs, burin, burns, dings, dribs, drubs, drugs. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-g-i-i-n-r-s-s-u" | |
+4 letters: subdistricting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 42 55 52 53 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -... ..- .-. ... .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01000010 01010101 01010010 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S B U R S I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0042 0055 0052 0053 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38435336555253434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | å—å…¸ , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉è¯, ä¸ , æ¼¢ , ä¸åœ‹ , kineser, Chinois, Chinesisch, 중êµ, chino |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦è¯, danois, dänisch, ë´ë§ˆí¬, danés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法è¯, français, französisch, í"„랑스, francés |
German | wörterbuch, Ãœbersetzung | å¾·è¯, 德國 , å¾·æ–‡ , 德語 , tysker, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, ë…ì¼, alemán |
Korean | ì‚¬ì „, ì •ì˜, ë²ˆì— | 韩国è¯, éŸ"國 , æœé®®èªž , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, í•œêµ, coreano |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西ç牙語 , 西ç牙文 , 西ç牙è¯, espagnol, spanisch, 스페ì¸, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英è¯, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, ì˜êµ, inglés |
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