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Definition dispense

Etymology

From Old French dispenser, from Latin dispensare (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

Verb

dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)

1. To issue, distribute, or give out.
2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
3. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
4. (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

Noun

dispense (countable and uncountable, plural dispenses)

1. (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
2. (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.

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