Dispose Of

Definition: Dispose Of

Dispose Of

Verb

1. Deal with or settle; "He disposed of these cases quickly".

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

Arrangement

Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.

Completion

Despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.

Giving

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

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

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.

Use

Render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.

Crosswords: Dispose Of

In Vietnam his job was to dispose of enemy personnel. (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll)

Give us leave, great king, to view the field in safety and dispose of their dead bodies. (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare)

To want to dispose of a pigeon. (Poisoning Pigeons In The Park; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

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Books

• Be Your Own Undertaker : How To Dispose Of A Dead Body (reference)

• How Should America Dispose of Toxic Waste? (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlet Series) (reference)

• How to Dispose of Oil and Hazardous Chemical Spill Debris (reference)

• How to dispose of toxic substances and industrial wastes (reference)

• Waste Analysis: Epa Guidance Manual for Facilities That Generate, Treat, Store and Dispose of Hazardous Wastes (reference)

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Brick Flat Pit. This pit was excavated to extract ore and was then used to dispose of sludge, an early and inefficient disposal method. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A local school group poses after the removal effort. Volunteers cut Brazilian Pepper bushes from native mangrove habitat and then the County Roadworks uses a chipper to chip the bushes and dispose of the brush. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

You may dispose of me very easily : I am nearly disposed of now, but this question is still to be settled, this Negro question ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common- wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. (reference)

The right of each of the Allied and Associated Powers to dispose of enemy assets and property within its jurisdiction at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty is not affected by the foregoing provisions. (reference)

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There are yet two zeroes to dispose of.

He had not examined and weighed the right which man assumes to dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable.

Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the following papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit.

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Health

Dispose of diapers properly. (references)

Appropriately dispose of placenta, birth products, fetal membranes, and aborted fetuses at facilities housing sheep and goats. (references)

Most pets are safe to own. However, someone who is not immunocompromised should clean their litter boxes or cages, and dispose of the stool. (references)

Business

About 20 former salt mines are also used to store, stabilize, and dispose of hazardous waste. (references)

Moreover, individuals and enterprises can own and dispose of buildings and other forms of property. (references)

At present, Italy has the capacity to manage and dispose of only 30 percent of the waste it generates. (references)

Economic History

Bahamas

They may freely establish, acquire, and dispose of interests in business enterprises. (references)

Lebanon

They can freely establish, acquire, and dispose of interests in business enterprises. (references)

Russia

Also, both the U.S. and Russia will cooperate to dispose of excess military plutonium. (references)

Human Rights

Zambia

In 1999 the Commissioner of Prisons attributed the serious overcrowding in prisons to the slow pace that the courts dispose of cases. (references)

Brazil

A witness who testified before that committee identified the site of a mass grave in Acre that federal authorities believe Pascoal's organization used to dispose of at least eight murder victims. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

In accordance with Islamic law, a Muslim woman has the right to hold and dispose of her own property without interference. (references)

Political Rights

Cameroon

Polling officials are supposed to provide a method by which voters can dispose of the unused ballots privately before exiting the closed booth, but this rarely was done in the 1996 or 1997 elections. (references)

Trade

Korea

In response to the 1997-98 financial crisis, the Korean government closed or merged scores of insolvent banks and financial institutions; by 2001 had injected upwards of $119 billion into the banking system, with plans to spend $22 billion more; set up the Korean Asset Management Corporation (KAMCO) to dispose of non-performing assets; required banks to raise their capital adequacy ratios to the BIS standard of 8%; introduced strengthened asset classification standards for banks; and imposed "forward-looking" criteria (FLC) to force the banks to provision adequately for non-performing loans, among other reforms. (references)

Women

Kyrgyz Republic

Data indicated that women were becoming less healthy, more abused, less able to work outside the home, and less able to dispose of their earnings independently. (references)

Worker Rights

Uruguay

Children over the age of 16 may sue in court for payment of wages, and children have the legal right to dispose of their own income. (references)

Bangladesh

Traffickers living abroad often arrive in a village and "marry" a woman, only to dispose of her upon arrival in the destination country, where women are sold by their new "friends" or "husbands" into bonded labor, menial jobs, or prostitution. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dispose of": dispose of a matter ♦ dispose of by will ♦ dispose of refuse and sewage ♦ do dispose of ♦ To dispose of. Additional references.

Afrikaans

verkoop (dispose, sell, vend). (various references)

Albanian

zgjidh (annul, arrange, cancel, dispose, dissolve, do, iron out, resolve, settle, solve, unbind, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unlace, unleash, unlock, unravel, untie, work, work out), shes (bargain away, barter away, betray, flog, handle, market, negotiate, realize, sell, vend), rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, compose, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, redress, regularize, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up, trim), heq qafe (close out, despatch, disembarrass, dispatch, dispense with, ditch, doff, dump, make away with oneself, put off), heq duarsh, hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), e pi, e ha (get it). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, disposal, 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). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, fix up, ground, negotiate, organize, patch, patch up, pay, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap, wrap up), убивам (account for, assassinate, do in, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put away, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, strike down, wipe out, zap), справям се с (account for, cope with, cut, hack, handle, meet, reckon with, touch), отървавам се от (ditch, get rid of, put off, railroad, shake oneself free, shed, ship off, unload), продавам (keep, market, prostitute, sell, sell out, trade off, unload, vend), похарчвам (sell, spend), пласирам (market, place, sell, trade off), изяждам (clip, consume, eat up, manage, shift). (various references)

Catalan

vendre (sell, vend). (various references)

Czech

disponovat èím (command), disponovat, zlikvidovat (demolish, mop up, smash), zbavit se (banish, cast off, do away, drive away, get rid of, grow out of, lose, oust, shake off, unload), prodat (negotiate, realize, sell), použít èeho, odstranit (ablate, clear away, discharge, dismantle, do away with, eliminate, get out, remove, supersede, sweep, take away), mít k použití co. (various references)

Danish

sælge (sell, vend). (various references)

Dutch

wegdoen (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove, sell, vend), vervreemden (abalienate, sell, vend), verkopen (sell, transact money, vend), verhandelen (sell, treat, vend), tappen (release, sell, vend), overdoen (sell, vend), beschikken over (absorb, have at one's disposal). (various references)

Esperanto

vendi (sell, vend). (various references)

Faeroese

selja (sell, vend). (various references)

Finnish

myydä (sell, vend). (various references)

French

vendre. (various references)

Frisian

ferkeapje (sell, vend). (various references)

German

veräußern (alienate, bargain away, sell, to alienate, vend). (various references)

Greek 

ξεκάνω (do for, undo). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"פטר (be freed, depart, die, get rid of). (various references)

Hungarian

rendelkezik valamivel (have, possess), intézkedik valamirõl (provide for), elad (give away, negotiate, prostitute, sale, sell, to merchandise, to negotiate, to turn into money, to vend, vend), árul (sell, sold, to sell, to vend, vend). (various references)

Icelandic

selja (sell, vend). (various references)

Italian

vendere (deal in, dispose, sale, sell, vend), smaltire (digest, drain, finish off, sell off, swallow, take off, walk off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

捌 (break, deal with, drain, flow off, handle, sell, tear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さばき (break, deal with, decision, drain, flow off, handle, judgment, sell, tear, tribunal, verdict). (various references)

Norwegian

selge (sell, vend). (various references)

Papiamen

bende (sell, vend). (various references)

Pig Latin

isposeday ofay

Polish

sprzedawać. (various references)

Portuguese

dispersar (break up, disband, disject, dismiss, dispel, disperse, dissipate, distract, drive away, scatter), destituir (depose, deprive, dismiss, drive away, oust, sack, unseat), despedir (cashier, dismiss, displace, drive away, fire, fling, pay off, remove, sack, speed, turn off), demitir (boot, bounce, cashier, demit, discharge, dismiss, displace, drive away, fall, remove, sack), vender (keep, negotiate, sell, truck, vend), ceder (break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, desist, fold, give in, give up, give way, go, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knuckle under, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

Romanian

rezolva o chestiune (dispose of a matter). (various references)

Russian 

распоряжаться (call the play, call the tune, have the say, hold the balance, make free, rule the roost), отделываться (dismiss, get off, get rid, put off), пр� (regulation, sell), продать (sell, vend), продавать (carry, realize, sell, sells, sold, vend, vending). (various references)

Scottish

reic (sell, selling, vend). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raspolagati (access, dispose), prodati (dispose, market, merchandise, sell, sell up), izbaciti (belch, cut out, delete, dispose, eject, jerk, scavenge, throw, throw out, turf out, warp). (various references)

Spanish

vender (hive off, market, place, sell, trade, trade up, vend). (various references)

Sranan

seri (sell, vend). (various references)

Swedish

avyttra (move, realize, sell, vend). (various references)

Turkish

satmak (give the game away, market, offload, push off, resell, sell, sell smb. down the river, unload, vend). (various references)

Welsh

gwerthu (sell, vend). (various references)

Yucatec

konik (sell, vend). (various references)

Zulu

-thengisa (sell, vend). (various references)

abalienabantur, abalienabit, abalienarentur, abalienati, abalienavit, vendere. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dispose, foodies, isodose, isopods, spoofed.

-3 letters: dipsos, foodie, isopod, pissed, poised, poises, posies, spodes, spoofs.

-4 letters: defis, dipso, dopes, doses, eidos, feods, fidos, foods, fosse, pesos, pisos, poise, poods, poofs, posed, poses, posse, seifs, sides, siped, sipes, spied, spies, spode, spoof.

-5 letters: defi, dies, dips, diss, does, dope, dose, doss, epos, feds, feod, fess.