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dispense

/dɪsˈpɛns/

noun

Meaning

  • Cost, expenditure.

  • The act of dispensing, dispensation.

verb

Meaning

  • To issue, distribute, or give out.

  • To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

    "to dispense justice"

  • To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

    "An optician can dispense spectacles."

  • To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.

  • To compensate; to make up; to make amends.