dispense

verb · nounB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

dispenses

V_ing/Gerund

dispensing

V_ed/pp

dispenseddispence

1.
To issue, distribute, or give out.
2.
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
to dispense justice
3.
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
An optician can dispense spectacles.
4.
(particularly in canon law) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
Every spring, the passive aggressive archbishop suffered from a brief flu that dispensed him from needing to provide Easter service to the king.
She was dispensed from her vows and married Captain von Trapp.
5.
(intransitive, obsolete)To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

dispensesdispence

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

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predispensedundispenseddispensabilitydispensementdispensomemisdispensenanodispenseredispensedispensary dispenserdispense withdispensabledispend

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English -, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre, frequentative of dispendere (to weigh out), from dis- (apart) + pendere (to weigh).