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Disburse   /dɪsbˈərs/   Listen
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Disburse  v. t.  (past & past part. disbursed; pres. part. disbursing)  To pay out; to expend; usually from a public fund or treasury. "The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues."
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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"Disburse" Quotes from Famous Books



... current expenditure. The President did not invite my confidence as to the disposal of his funds; indeed before long I was alarmed to see a growing coldness in his manner, which I considered at once ungrateful and menacing; and when the half-year came round he firmly refused to disburse more than half the amount of interest due on the second loan, thus forcing me to make an inroad on my reserve of forty-five thousand dollars. He gave me many good reasons for this course of conduct, dwelling chiefly on the necessary unproductiveness of public works ...
— A Man of Mark • Anthony Hope

... Rochelle. The expedition failed in its purpose and Buckingham had soon to ask for reinforcements. In August the City was called upon by the king to furnish 100 men towards making up the losses sustained, for which the Chamberlain was authorised to disburse L50 in impress money.(329) In October Charles asked for 250 soldiers in addition to those already raised, and these were found without drawing upon the trained bands.(330) In spite of all efforts there was great delay in forwarding to Buckingham the reinforcements ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe

... escape at that time popular. "No, I left by the Creteil gate, without drum or trumpet, or anything more romantic than a laissez-passer signed by Favre. There will be the devil to pay in Paris before another week has passed, and I am not going to disburse." ...
— Dross • Henry Seton Merriman

... first glance so powerful be A mirth but opened and sealed up again, What wonders shall we feel when we shall see Thy full-orbed love! When Thou shalt look us out of pain, And one aspect of Thine spend in delight, More than a thousand worlds' disburse in ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael

... shabby wall-paper, his stairway, his asthmatic bell, his aged straw mattress, his den without warmth, like his eye. He made them laugh about this new uncle; they neither troubled themselves about du Tillet and his pretended want of money, nor about an old usurer so ready to disburse. What was there ...
— A Daughter of Eve • Honore de Balzac


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