Disposal

Definition: Disposal

Disposal

Noun

1. The power to use something or someone: "used all the resources at his disposal".

2. A method of tending to (especially business) matters.

3. The act or means of getting rid of something.

4. A kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disposal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Disposal \Dis*pos"al\, noun. [From Dispose.]. (references)

Archeological

Environment

Language

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Disposal

Arrangement

Noun: arrangement; plan; preparation; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation; distribution; sorting; Verb: assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation.

Possession

Possessed; Verb: on hand, by one; in hand, in store, in stock; in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession; at one's command, at one's disposal; one's own; (property).

Sale

Noun: sale, vent, disposal; auction, roup, Dutch auction; outcry, vendue; custom; (traffic).

Use

Exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency; (physical); usufruct; usefulness; benefit; recourse, resort, avail.

Crosswords: Disposal

I have sworn to capture this man with all legal powers at my disposal and I will do so. (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness)

Seven trillion dollar communications system at my disposal, I can't find out if the Packers won. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Alberto is an expert in the disposal business (Scarface; writing credit: Oliver Stone)

Disposal (2003)

My Old Man's a Dustman (Ballad of a Refuse Disposal Officer) (performing artist: Lonnie Donegan)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Solid Waste Disposal Equipment and Services in Thailand: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

• Medical Waste Disposal Equipment in Indonesia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• Hazardous Waste Management and Disposal Equipment in Switzerland: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

• Hospital Waste Treatment and Disposal in India: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

• Hazardous Waste Management and Disposal Equipment in Poland: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Conversion Concepts for Commercial Applications and Disposal Technologies of Energetic Systems (NATO Asi Series. Partnership Subseries, 1, disarmament (reference)

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Seabed Sediments: Proceedings of an International Conference (Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Seabed Sediments) (reference)

• Fly Ash and Coal Conversion By-Products: Characterization, Utilization, and Disposal V: Symposium Held December 1-3, 1988, Boston, Massachusetts, U. (reference)

• Hazardous Laboratory Chemicals Disposal Guide (reference)

• Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age: The Health and Environmental Problems of Plutonium Production and Disposal (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Rcra Land Disposal Restrictions : A Guide To Compliance (reference)

• Waste Disposal & Water Management In Australia (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bomb Disposal Officer Baby Bomb (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Consumer Goods

• Diaper Dekor Plus - Diaper Disposal System (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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The Mediterranean is a semi-enclosed sea relatively low in nutrients and fishery productivity. It has become increasingly polluted owing to runoff by nutrients from waste disposal and agriculture. Catch of key species such as Black Sea anchovy has fallen, relecting environmental degradation. High exploitation levels have also depleted important stocks such as blue fin tuna and swordfish. Credit: Fisheries.

Dredged sediments being pumped through a pipeline toward the marsh creation disposal area. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Marsh Creation disposal site immediately after construction. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An air monitoring facility at the combined disposal facility. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The New Bedford side of the Inner Harbor near one of the combined disposal facilities on the New Bedford side. The sign here is in Portugese and English. The sign warns people to keep out of the river because it is contaminated. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The Combined Disposal Facility (CDF) on the New Bedford side of the inner harbor. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Welding the pieces of fabric together at the bottom and sides of the combined disposal facility. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Explosive ordinance disposal team member.

Improper disposal of dead chickens on a southwestern Missouri poultry farm poses a water quality concern. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

Waste disposal shown on this farm. Credit: USDA.

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Every man is born with a double right: first, a right of freedom to his person, which no other man has a power over, but the free disposal of it lies in himself. (Second Treatise of Government)

Our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives. (reference)

Prisoners of war and interned civilians who are awaiting disposal or undergoing sentence for offences other than those against discipline may be detained. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I told his Excellency that I was entirely at his disposal, and accordingly we set out next morning

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This leads to disposal of blood from normal donors and to deferral of the donors from future donation. (references)

If burning or burying isn't feasible, contact your local or state health department about other disposal methods. (references)

The period that dialysis solution is in your abdomen is called the dwell time. Next, you drain the dialysis solution back into the bag for disposal. (references)

Business

This increases the range of final disposal options. (references)

The latter’s emissions are due to solid waste disposal. (references)

The BMA charges 11 baht per kilogram for waste disposal. (references)

Civil Liberties

Colombia

On May 21, police bomb disposal experts defused a bomb packed into a pick-up truck outside of the offices of Voz. (references)

Haiti

The financial and other means at the Government's disposal provide it with the means to hire experienced staff from competing media. (references)

Economic History

Djibouti

The embassy remains at your disposal to provide you with information and help. (references)

Human Rights

Georgia

Most prison facilities lack proper ventilation, plumbing, lighting, waste disposal, or sanitary medical facilities. (references)

Minorities

Greece

Most Romani camps have no running water, electricity, garbage disposal, or sewage treatment. (references)

Political Economy

COLOMBIA

Exceptions include activities related to national security and the disposal of hazardous waste. (references)

Trade

Philippines

Mislabeling, misrepresentation or misbranding may subject an entire shipment to seizure and disposal. (references)

Luxembourg

Authorization may be subject to conditions governing in particular the technical equipment at the disposal of the applicant and/or operator. (references)

Luxembourg

The installation and operation of equipment and/or a site for waste disposal are subject to authorization by the Ministry for the Environment. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

Each facility also has its own water system, waste disposal system, generator for electricity, and transportation system. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

The law prohibits forced labor or compulsory labor; however, the International Labor Organization's Committee of Experts in its 2000 annual report questioned a decree that places certain categories of prisoners at the disposal of private enterprises for work assignments without their apparent consent. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "disposal": at his disposal ♦ at one's disposal ♦ at smb.'s disposal ♦ be at smb.'s disposal ♦ bomb disposal ♦ bomb disposal expert ♦ bomb disposal squad ♦ bomb disposal unit ♦ disposal areas ♦ disposal of a removed part of the human body ♦ disposal of public land ♦ disposal of records ♦ disposal of seized,attached or officially recorded assets ♦ disposal plant ♦ disposal site ♦ diversified slash disposal ♦ explosive ordnance disposal ♦ explosive ordnance disposal incident ♦ explosive ordnance disposal procedures ♦ explosive ordnance disposal reconnaissance ♦ food waste disposal unit ♦ for disposal ♦ garbage disposal ♦ gaseous waste disposal system ♦ have at one's disposal ♦ have smb. at one's disposal ♦ have smth. at one's disposal ♦ Medical Waste Disposal ♦ mine disposal ♦ off site disposal ♦ outlet of sewage disposal ♦ procuration of the right of disposal ♦ push smth. at smb.'s disposal ♦ Refuse Disposal ♦ right of disposal ♦ sewage disposal ♦ sewage disposal plant ♦ sewerage disposal ♦ solid waste disposal ♦ ultimate radioactive waste disposal site ♦ waste disposal ♦ waste disposal information message ♦ waste disposal plan ♦ waste disposal plant ♦ waste disposal site ♦ wastewater disposal. Additional references.

Ending with "disposal": bomb-disposal, waste-disposal.

Afrikaans

lus (inclination, tendency). (various references)

Albanian

drejtim (accost, administration, conduct, course, direction, directorship, drift, guide, headship, helm, lead, leadership, lie, line, management, manual, operation, orientation, quarter, rectification, regimen, resort, run, set, steerage, supervision, tenor, trend, vector, way), dispozicion (command), dhënie (administration, allocation, assignation, award, cession, conferment, dispensation, distribution, donation, grant, issue, presentation, settlement), zgjidhje (annulling, answer, canceling, denouement, disentanglement, disposition, key, resolution, settlement, solution, undoing, unfastening, untying), vendosje (disposition, elicitation, emplacement, erection, establishment, installation, installment, instalment, location, mounting, placement, placing, putting, ranking, situation, stowage), shitje (closeout, disposition, market, sale, vending), rregullim (adjustment, arrangement, conciliation, control, disposition, modulation, mopping, rearrangement, regulation, repair, settlement, tuning), kontroll (checkup, clutches, control, exam, examination, grip, hand, hands, inspection, mastery, monitoring, probe, restraint, search, supervision, swaddling clothes, verification), heqje (abolition, clearing, collection, deduction, Defeasance, deletion, deprivation, derogation, dismissal, dismission, dispossession, ejection, elimination, evacuation, excision, extirpation, extraction, jump, omission, out, outage, privation, recall, relegation, removal, rending, resection, reserve, skip, stripping, subtraction, tripping), hedhje (Bob, buck, cast, chuck, dart, dash, drop, fling, flirt, hop, hurl, jerk, launch, leap, lunge, lurch, pitch, pounce, precipitation, projection, put, skip, throw, throwing, toss). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وقف (bait, bristle, carry, cessation, check, come to a halt, devote, discontinuation, get up, halt, pause, pull up, refraining, rise, severance, stand, stand up, stasis, stood, stoppage, stopping), ‏حق التصرف, ‏تنظيم (adjustment, arrangement, arranging, arraying, disposition, ordering, organization, organizing, planning, preparation, regulation, systematization), ‏تصرف (action, behave, behavior, behaviour, carry, carry on, comport, conduct, conduct oneself, demeanor, demeanour, deport, deport oneself, deportment, fend, make, make shift, manage, mark out, proceed, rustle up), ‏تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, dispose of, ditch, do dispose of, doff, drown, elimination, escape, exorcise, exorcize, free, get out of, get rid of, jettison, liquidate, mop up, outgrow, polish up, put off, rid, scrap, sell up, shake, shake off, slough, turn, turn off, weed, weed out, work off), ‏ترتيب (arrangement, arranging, array, configuration, disposition, laying, marshalling, order, orderliness, settlement, system, tidiness), ‏تدبير (arrangement, concoction, economy, handling, management, providence, thrift), ‏رمي (throw, throwing). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разгъване, разпореждане (administration, disposition, injunction, ordination, writ), разположение (collocation, disposition, emplacement, lay, liking, mood, placement, situation, tune), освобождаване (delivery, discharge, disengagement, disentanglement, dismission, dispensation, emancipation, enfranchisement, exemption, extrication, immunity, liberation, remission, rescue, vacation), продаване (sale), премахване (abolishment, abolition, deletion, obliteration, removal, retrenchment, undoing), пласмент (outlet, sale), пласиране (marketing, selling), изхвърляне (ejaculation, ejection, ejectment, excretion, outing, projection, relegation, spilth, toss), диспозиция (disposition). (various references)

Chinese 

處分 , 处置 (handled, handling). (various references)

Czech

dispozice (bent, disposition, layout, setup), uspořádání (adjustment, arrangement, collocation, disposition, make up, makeup, order, organization, setting), příkaz (command, commission, dictate, direction, instruction, precept, word), odvoz (carting, collection), odvážka, likvidace (liquidation). (various references)

Danish

tendens (inclination, tendency). (various references)

Dutch

zin (acceptation, contention, desire, feel, feeling, inclination, intention, meaning, opinion, plan, pleasure, sensation, sense, sentence, tendency, want, will, willingness, wish), neiging (inclination, tendency), lust (desire, inclination, lust, passion, sexual pleasure, tendency, want, wish), aanvechting (inclination, temptation, tendency). (various references)

Esperanto

inklino (inclination, tendency). (various references)

Faeroese

lyndi (inclination, tendency), hugur (inclination, lust, passion, tendency). (various references)

Farsi 

مصرف (Consumption, Expenditure, Use, Utilizable, Utilization, Wasteful, Waster), دسترس (Access), درمعرض گذاری (Exposure), دراختیار. (various references)

Finnish

purkaminen (cancellation, demolition, dissolution, unloading), huolehtiminen. (various references)

French

disposition (disposition), destruction, cession (divestiture). (various references)

Frisian

oanstriid (inclination, tendency), oanfjochting (inclination, tendency). (various references)

German

verfügung (decree, domain, enactment, instruction, possession, provision, writ), beseitigung (clearance, deletion, elimination, redress, removal, settling), anordnung (adjustment, alignment, appointment, arrangement, array, classification, collocation, decree, disposition, fiat, formation, get up, grouping, injunction, layout, order, ordering, ordinance, position, regulation, serialization). (various references)

Greek 

διάθεση (attitude, cheer, disposition, humor, humour, mood, spirit, temper, vein). (various references)

Hebrew 

שליט�" (ascendancy, authority, command, control, disposition, dominance, domination, dominion, mastery, predominance, predomination, proficiency, take over), �"פטרות (riddance, ridding oneself). (various references)

Hungarian

megszabadulás (vmitől), felszámolás (elimination, liquidation, mopping-up, windup), elrendezés (adjustment, arrangement, arranging, composition, disposition, docketing, layout, marshalling, ordinance, organization, scheme, settling, set-up), elintézés (adjustment, arrangement, dispatch, fixing, setting). (various references)

Indonesian

penjualan (sale), pembuangan (banishment). (various references)

Italian

smaltimento (digestion), Eliminazione (elimination, excrement, removal, secretion), disposizione (addiction, appliance, arrangement, array, artifice, bent, buildup, disposition, humor, humour, inclination, instruction, lay, layout, liability, order, position, scheme, tendency), cessione (abandonment, abbandonato, assignation, cession, surrender, transfer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

廃棄 (abandon, annullment, discarding, repeal, scrap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょぶ�" (dealing, punishment), しょり (dealing with, disposition, processing, treatment), はいき (abandon, annullment, discarding, exhaust, repeal, scrap, ventilation), はらいさ�' (sale). (various references)

Korean 

처리 (Managing). (various references)

Manx

cur kione er (conclude, finish, roof). (various references)

Papiamen

disponé (absorb, have at one's disposal). (various references)

Pig Latin

isposalday.(various references)

Polish

dysponować (absorb, have at one's disposal). (various references)

Portuguese

eliminação (deletion, mop-up, obliteration), cessão (abandonment, assignment, cession, give). (various references)

Romanian

dispunere (array, disposing, disposition, laying out), dispoziţie (arrangement, condition, disposition, fondness, humor, humour, inclination, injunction, mandate, mind, mood, nature, order, provision, service, step, stipulation, temper, trim, tune), rezolvare (answer, solution), ordine (array, command, discipline, disposition, method, order, orderliness, peace, range, regime, regulation, right, sequence, succession, system, tidiness, trim), cesiune (assignation, assignment, cession, demise, grant, release, transfer), cedare (climb down, concession, devolution, release), aşezare (collocation, disposition, dwelling, establishment, hang, house, lay, laying, seating, setting, settlement, system), înlãturare (abscission, elimination). (various references)

Russian 

расположение (collocation, disposition, emplacement, favour, goodwill, liking, lineup, order, ranking, regard). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

staviti na raspolaganje, odstranjivanje. (various references)

Spanish

tentación (enticement, inclination, temptation, tendency), eliminación de desechos, disposición (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, arrangement, capability, decree, deposition, disposition, fitness, gift, layout, order, ordinance, provision, ready, setup, suitability, talent). (various references)

Swedish

fritt förfogande, förfogande (command, disposition). (various references)

Turkish

devir (age, alienation, assignation, assignment, cession, circle, circulation, circumvolution, currency, cycle, epoch, era, Eyre, grant, gyration, period, release, Rev, revolution, rotation, rounder, spin, take over, transfer, transference, turnover), düzen (arrangement, array, contexture, convention, coordination, cosmos, disposition, formation, get up, harmony, layout, make up, method, order, orderliness, regime, regularity, regulation, right, scheme, system, trim), yok etme (annihilation, effacement, elimination, eradication, extermination, extinction, obliteration, tabula rasa), satış (sale, sell, selling), ortadan kaldırma (effacement, removal), kullanım (access, application, usage, use, utilization), emir (ameer, amir, behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, decree, dictate, dictation, direction, disposition, emir, fiat, imperatival, imperative, jussive, mandate, order, precept, prescription, ukase, word, word of command). (various references)

Ukrainian

усунення (abolishment, abolition, amendment, amputation, dethronement, elimination, obviation, preclusion, removal, withdrawal), управління (administration, agency, authority, control, department, dispensation, governance, gubernation, guidance, leadership, leading, management, office, ordering, presidence, regimen, regiment, ruling, steerage, stewardship, superintendence), право розпоряджатися, передача (assignation, assignment, cession, devolution, transfer, transference, transfusion, transmission). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sắp xếp (arrangement, disposition, ordination), sự sắp đặt (arrangement, disposition, fix-up, mapping), sự nhượng lại sự tuỳ ý sử dụng, sự chuyển nhượng (assignment, disposition), sự bố trí, sự bán tống đi sự bán, cách sắp xếp (disposition), cách bố trí sự vứt bỏ đi. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "disposal": disposals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Disposal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dispeal, dispoal, dispora, disposol, dispozal. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: salpids.

-2 letters: assoil, dipsas, dipsos, dossal, dossil, plaids, salpid, sloids, solids, spails, spoils.

-3 letters: adios, apods, apsis, aspis, dials, diols, dipso, dopas, idols, lapis, lasso, lidos, lisps, loads, oasis, opals, ossia, padis, pails, pisos, plaid, plods, podia, polis, psoai, psoas, sadis, saids, sails, salps, sapid, sials, silds, silos, sisal, slaps, slips, sloid, slops.

+1 letter: disposals, plasmoids, shiploads.

+2 letters: disposable, psalmodies, sapodillas.

+3 letters: anadiploses, anadiplosis, diplophases, disposables, drosophilas, polydipsias, proplastids.

+4 letters: diplomatists, disapprovals, hospitalised, personalised.

+5 letters: despoliations, disposability, dispositional, kaleidoscopes, nucleocapsids, palindromists, perissodactyl, phosphatidyls, postdiluvians, pseudoclassic, spasmodically.