| Pronunciation: | | dis'burs
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| Matching Terms: | | disbursal, disbursement, disburser
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| | Definition: | | [v] pay out |
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| | Synonyms: | | pay out |
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| | See Also: | | pay |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*burse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disbursed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Disbursing}.] [OF. desbourser, F. d['e]bourser; pref.
des- (L. dis-) + bourse purse. See {Burse}, and cf.
{Dispurse}.]
To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or
treasury.
The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues.
--Macaulay.
{Disbursing officer}, an officer in any department of the
public service who is charged with the duty of paying out
public money.
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| | Related Terms: | | administer, budget, cost, cost out, deal, deal out, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, dole, dole out, expend, fork out, give, give out, go through, incur costs, invest, issue, lay, lay out, measure out, mete, mete out, open the purse, outlay, parcel out, partition, pass around, pay, pay out, portion out, put out, run through, schedule, shell out, sink money in, spend, splurge, spoon out, squander, throw money around |
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