Dispense

Definition: Dispense

Dispense

Verb

1. 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".

2. Grant a dispensation; grant an exemption; "I was dispensed from this terrible task".

3. Give or apply, as of medications.

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Date "dispense" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Dispense

Apportionment

Verb: apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve.

Disuse

Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.

Exemption

Exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve; (forgive); exonerate; (exculpate); save the necessity.

Giving

Present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out.

Nonassemblage Dispersion

Verb: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse.

Permission

Let off; absolve; (acquit); release, exonerate, dispense with.

Requirement

Verb: require, need, want, have occasion for; not be able to do without, not be able to dispense with; prerequire.

Sale

Verb: sell, vend, dispose of, effect a sale; sell over the counter, sell by auction; Noun: dispense, retail; deal in; sell off, sell out; turn into money, realize; bring to the hammer, bring under the hammer, put up to auction, put up for auction; offer for sale, put up for sale; hawk, bring to market; offer; undersell.

Crosswords: Dispense

French (dispensation, exemption, exempts, release).

I must get back to my comic book store, where I dispense the insults rather than receive them. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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Music

• Knockout to Dispense (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Roxy usherettes (l to r) Marie Prange, Sheilah Knox, and Jo Ann De Santis dispense coffee and doughnuts to line of movie patrons headed by Mrs. Lily Vieder, at the premiere of "Forever Amber" outside the Roxy Theater, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Secondly, The legislative, or supreme authority, cannot assume to its self a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees,* but is bound to dispense justice, and decide the rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws, and known authorized judges: for the law of nature being unwritten, and so no where to be found but in the minds of men, they who through passion or interest shall miscite, or misapply it, cannot so easily be convinced of their mistake where there is no established judge: and so it serves not, as it ought, to determine the rights, and fence the properties of those that live under it, especially where every one is judge, interpreter, and executioner of it too, and that in his own case: and he that has right on his side, having ordinarily but his own single strength, hath not force enough to defend himself from injuries, or to punish delinquents. (Second Treatise of Government)

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His mind dispensed with belief, yet his heart could not dispense with friendship.

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Health

LAAM will be increasingly available in clinics that already dispense methadone. (references)

Business

Previously, a pharmacy used to be a profitable business because the pharmacy could prescribe and dispense drugs. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Like its predecessor, the TADA, the proposed bill would dispense with constitutional guarantees for due process, allowing for preventive detention. (references)

Economic History

Monaco

Legal power is invested in the Prince, who delegates legal procedures to the various courts, which dispense justice in his name. (references)

Canada

Provinces have legislation which forces pharmacists to dispense the lowest priced generic version of a brand name to all patients on the provincial reimbursement program. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dispense": dispense from ♦ dispense justice ♦ dispense with ♦ not be able to dispense with ♦ To dispense with. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afskaf (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, do away with, get, get rid of, remove), afruim (dispense with, do away with, get, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Albanian

zbatoj (act, apply, apply to, carry out, carry through, effectuate, enforce, execute, follow, obey, observe, practise, realize), shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), përjashtoj (bar, cast out, count out, disqualify, drop, eliminate, except, exclude, excommunicate, expel, forbid, foreclose, oust, reject, rule out, score out, send down, weed out), përgatit (coach, compose, concoct, cook up, dress, fit, fit up, get, get ready, get up, make, make ready, make up, mix up, mobilize, prepare, produce, qualify, stage-manage, train), jap (accord, adjudge, administer, afford, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, come through, concede, deliver, dish, furnish, get through, give, give in, hand in, impart, land, lend, pay, present, produce, provide, reach, throw, vouchsafe, yield). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منح حلا أو تحلة, ‏وزع (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, circulation, deal, deal out, deliver, diffuse, disburse, distribute, divide, dole out, hand out, issue, ladle, parcel, part, portion, seed, serve out), ‏وضع القانون موضع التنفيذ, ‏عفا من قانون, ‏أقام العدالة (mete), ‏أدار (administer, boss, carry on, cast, direct, govern, manage, mobilize, operate, order, preside, procure, rotate, run, slew, slue, spin, spun, steward, superintend, tumble, twiddle, twirl, wind, work), ‏ركب الادوية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

уволнявам (boot, cast, discard, discharge, dismiss, drop, fire, grass, lay off, muster out, release, relieve, remove, retire, sack, send away, separate, shelve, turn away), разпределям (admeasure, allocate, allot, apportion, assort, deal out, distribute, give out, map out, measure, parcel out, part, plot, serve out, share out, slice, sort), раздавам (administer, administrate, allot, apportion, deal out, distribute, give away, give out, hand about, hand out, measure, mete out, parcel out, pass out), освобождавам (discharge, disencumber, disengage, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, extricate, free, give off, let loose, liberate, loose, make free, manumit, redeem, release, remit, rescue, set free, turn off, unbar, unbind, unburden, uncork, unfasten, unhand, unloose, unpen, unshackle, vacate), бракувам (condemn, cull, reject, scrap). (various references)

Chinese 

配藥 (prescribe), 分与 (Dispensed, Dispensing). (various references)

Czech

vykonávat (administer, exercise, exert, follow, go about, practise), rozdìlovat (deal, dole out, give out), rozdìlit (allot, apportion, carve up, deal out, disjoin, dismember, dissever, distribute, divide, divide out, divide up, give away, hand around, hand out, parcel, parcel out, part, partition, portion, separate, share, split), připravovat (cook, groom), připravit (busk, concoct, cook, engineer, get ready, prepare, provide, temper), osvobodit (affranchise, deliver, discharge, enfranchise, free, liberate, manumit, relieve, set free). (various references)

Danish

dispensere. (various references)

Dutch

verstrekken (procure, provide). (various references)

Faeroese

beina burtur (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, put away, remove, store, throw away, turn away). (various references)

Farsi 

معاف کردن (Dismiss, Excuse, Exempt, Frank, Remit), توزیع کردن (Administer, Deal, Parcel), بخشیدن (Bestow, Betake, Condone, Donate, Forgive, Give, Giveaway, Grant, Indulgence, Pardon, Pleasure, Portion, Privilege, Remit, Spare, Vouchsafe), باطل کردن (Abrogate, Annul, Cancel, Disannul, Frank, Invalid, Invalidate, Quash, Undo). (various references)

Finnish

jakaa oikeutta (to dispense justice, to render justice). (various references)

French

dispenser (distribute). (various references)

Frisian

ôftankje (discard, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), ôfskaffe (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

German

verteilen (allocate, allot, deal, deal out, deploy, dish out, disperse, distribute, divide, divide out, give away, give out, hand out, hand round, intersperse, lay out, quarter, scatter, separate, serve out, share, share out, spread, sprinkle, string out, to allot, to dispense, to distribute, to spread (out)), austeilen (administer, allot, deal, dish out, distribute, hand out, hand round, issue, parcel, to allot, to dispense, to give out, to hand out). (various references)

Greek 

απονέμω (administer, allot, ascribe, assign, award, bestow, distribute, give away, mete). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחלק (apportion, distribute, divide, dole out, give out, hand out, parcel, part, partition, section, share, share out, sunder). (various references)

Hungarian

kioszt (allocate, allot, deal out, give out, hand out, issue, to allocate, to allot, to assign, to deal out, to dispense, to distribute, to give out, to issue, to pass out, to portion out, to proportion, to section out, to share out, to zonk it to sy), adományoz (award, confer, donate, endow, give, to award, to commend, to confer, to donate, to endow, to grant). (various references)

Indonesian

menyalurkan (distribute, drain), membagikan (allot, distribute, give away, share). (various references)

Italian

distribuire (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, deal out, deliver, distribute, impart, release, share, spread). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

分かれる (to branch off, to dispense, to diverge from, to divide into, to fork, to scatter, to split). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

わかれる (to be divided, to bid farewell, to branch off, to dispense, to diverge from, to divide into, to fork, to part from, to scatter, to separate, to split). (various references)

Manx

oardaghey (authorize, bidding, command, commission, decree, indent, ordain, order, rank), mestey (churning, compound, confuse, cross-breed, garble, hybridize, interlace, jumble, mash, miscellany, mix, mixture, promiscuity, shuffle, stir), cur magh (board out, deal, delegate, delegation, dispatch, dispensation, displace, edition, eject, ejection, emission, emit, evacuate, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, exude, issue, lay out, publication, publish, push out, put out, run out, turn out). (various references)

Pig Latin

ispenseday

Portuguese

distribuir (allocate, allot, deliver, dispassionate, distribute, dole out, give over, hand out, parcel, portion, serve, share, spread), dispensar (dispense with, do without, excuse me, exempted, go without, render, spare), repartir (allocate, allot, apportion, deal, deal out, dishabille, distribute, divide, dole out, metempsychosis, part, portion, separate, share, slice, whack), farmacopéia (material, pharmacy), entregar (charge, commit, consign, deliver, furnish, give, give me, give up a claim, hand, hand in, hand over, hand pump, lay down, relinquish, render, serve, supply, take part, turn in, turn over, yield). (various references)

Romanian

distribui (admeasure, apportion, assign, deal, distribute, divide, give out, measure out, mete, mete out, pass out, portion, serve out, share out, spread), se lipsi (forgo), scuti (absolve, disengage, excuse, exempt, forgive, free, privilege, release, relieve, remit, save, spare), repartiza (allocate, allot, apportion, assign, deal, distribute, divide, pass out, share out), prescrie (administer, enjoin, order, prescribe, provide), prepara (concoct, confection, dress, make up, prepare), face (achieve, act, anoint, appoint, be, be up to smth., bear, build, carry out, commit, compose, conclude, cook, cost, create, cut, do, does, draw, drive, effect, form, give, give forth, grow, happen, have, hold, induce, it does, keep, lead, leave, let, make, move, perform, perpetrate, persuade, prepare, produce, prompt, render, say, scoop in, strike, work, write, yield). (various references)

Russian 

распределять (alloc, allocate, allot, aportion, apportion, categorize, deal, deal out, dispart, distribute, give out, mete, portion out, rank, route, share, spans). (various references)

Scottish

seachainn (avoid, dispense with, shun). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podeliti (deal out, distribute, divide, divvy, farm out), izostaviti (dispense with, leave out, omit), biti bez. (various references)

Spanish

repartir (allot, apportion, deal, deal out, distribute, give out, hand around, hand out, hand round, issue, measure out, parcel out, part, pass out, share out), dispensar (birth, discharge, enfranchise, exempt, free, lib, unfetter, unshackle). (various references)

Swedish

utdela (deliver, distribute, fetch), fördela (allocate, allot, apportion, distribute, divide, lot, spread). (various references)

Turkish

dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), uygulamak (administer, apply, carry out, complete, deploy, enforce, exercise, exert, fulfil, fulfill, impart, implement, perform, practise, put into practice, realize), ilaç hazırlamak, hariç tutmak (except, exclude), bağışlamak (absolve, bestow, donate, endow, excuse, forgive, give away, give to charity, grant, hand out, hand over, have mercy, instate, kick in, pardon, remit, save). (various references)

Ukrainian

розподіляти (allocate, apportion, cast, deal, distribute, give away, ladle out, lot, mete, share), виконувати (administer, administrate, answer, carry out, comply, do, effect, effectuate, execute, fulfil, full, implement, obey, perform, play, put into effect, render, solve, tender). (various references)

Welsh

hepgor (dispense with, spare, what may be dispensed with). (various references)

dispensabit, dispensare, dispensator. (various references)

dispenser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dispense": dispensed, dispenser, dispensers, dispenses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dispense" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: depense, diepense, Dispagne, dispase, dispeanse, dispence, dispens, disponee, dysponea. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: despise, penises.

-2 letters: denies, dienes, dieses, espied, espies, peined, peised, peises, pissed, seined, seines, seised, sensed, sniped, snipes, speeds, speise, spends, spense, spined, spines.

-3 letters: deeps, denes, dense, diene, dines, needs, neeps, nides, pedes, peens, peins, peise, pends, penes, penis, pined, pines, seeds, seeps, seine, seise, sends, sense, sides, sines, siped, sipes, sneds.

+1 letter: dispensed, dispenser, dispenses, speedings, tepidness.

+2 letters: depressing, depression, dispensers, dopinesses, presidents, speediness.

+3 letters: depressions, despisement, diphosgenes, dispensable, dissepiment, dumpinesses, endoscopies, hesperidins, pedestrians, pedogenesis, pointedness, preassigned, predestines, prednisones, pudginesses, rapidnesses, rinderpests, splendidest, superseding, tepidnesses, unimpressed, vapidnesses.

+4 letters: adaptiveness, copresidents, depressingly, derepressing, derepression, desipramines, desperations, despisements, despoilments, dispensaries, dissepiments, interspersed, intrepidness, limpidnesses, lopsidedness, monodisperse, paedogenesis, pallidnesses, personalised, placidnesses, presidencies, pridefulness, processioned, pumpkinseeds, sidestepping, speedinesses, spellbinders, spiritedness, splendidness, stupidnesses, superinduces, superintends, unsupervised.

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