dispense

Meaning

Verb

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. To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

Noun

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

Synonyms

distribute

allot

administer

deal

allocate

exempt

deliver

give out

deal out

share

dish out

dole out

divide

hand out

assign

parcel out

lot

shell out

award

mete out

confer

split

divide into parts

sell

pass out

partition

scatter

mete

issue

free

🆓

apportion

bestow

clear

apply

circulate

circularize

allow

cater

cast

carve up

canton

allocation

admeasure

absolve

drive home

donate

emancipate

empower

endue

batch

Translations

dispenser

dispensar

distribuir

distribuer

dispensare

austeilen

διανέμω

verteilen

distribuire

abgeben

repartir

administrer

dispensieren

uitdelen

απονέμω

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈspɛns/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

In summary

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