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Dispose

verb

(past & past part. disposed; pres. part. disposing)

Give, sell, or transfer to another.

Throw or cast away. Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out.

Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief. Synonym: incline. Antonym: indispose.

Place or put in a particular order.

Make fit or prepared. Synonym: qualify. Antonym: disqualify.

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"Dispose" Quotes from Famous Books

... this hour of his triumph to forget the annoyances he had undergone since his book was first accepted. The publisher, with a large first edition to dispose of, had been rather more than firm with the author. He had changed the title of the book from "Earth's Returns"—a title that had seemed to the author dignified and pleasantly literary—to "The ...

— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton

... to the price for which it is sold to the wholesale dealer and by him attached to the price he charges the retail dealer and by him the amount is collected from the consumer. Sufficient notice is usually given that the importer and the dealers may dispose of all their goods before the tariff is removed. A public announcement of such a purpose was recently made in reference to the ...

— Usury - A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View • Calvin Elliott

... herself, to possess them absolutely. She demanded that they should love no one but her. She could not permit them to take from her and bestow upon others the slightest fragment of their affection: as she had earned it, it no longer belonged to them; they were no longer entitled to dispose of it. She detested the people whom her mistress seemed to welcome more cordially than others, and with whom she was on most intimate terms. By her ill-humor and her sullen manner she had offended, had almost driven ...

— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

... refutation occupied almost the whole of the argument. Huxley, in his three "Lectures on Evolution," of which the first is printed on page 233, gave the whole of this first lecture to a refutation of the alternative theories of the origin of plants and animals; since it was necessary to dispose of accepted theories before the new theory could get a hearing, he put his ...

— The Making of Arguments • J. H. Gardiner

... to fifty acres in size, to acquire in any way possible, though not by compulsory purchase, suitable land, to adapt it for farming purposes by fencing, making roads, and, if necessary, erecting suitable buildings; and then to dispose of it by sale, or, as a matter of exception, as before stated, on lease, to such parties as will themselves cultivate it. The terms of sale were to be advantageous to the purchaser. He must pay at least as much as a fifth of the price down, but one quarter of it might be left on ...

— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney

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