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- Dictionarydisburse/dɪsˈbəːs/
verb
- 1. pay out (money from a fund): "$67 million of the pledged aid had already been disbursed"
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to pay out money, usually from an amount that has been collected for a particular purpose: The local authorities annually disburse between £50 million and £100 million on arts projects. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Paying money. 2FA. 2SV. ante up (something) phrasal verb. burn a hole in someone's pocket idiom. buying power.
1. a. : to pay out : expend especially from a fund. disburse money. b. : to make a payment in settlement of. disburse a bill. 2. : distribute. disburser noun. Synonyms. drop. expend. fork (over, out, or up) give. lay out. outlay. pay. shell out. spend. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of disburse in a Sentence.
DISBURSED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of disburse 2. to pay out money, usually from an amount that has…. Learn more.
The noun form of disburse is disbursement, meaning the act of paying out money, or the payment itself. Disburse can also mean to distribute or scatter, but this sense is much less commonly used. (This sense sounds a lot like and means just about the same thing as disperse.)
verb. To disburse an amount of money means to pay it out, usually from a fund which has been collected for a particular purpose. [formal] The aid will not be disbursed until next year. [be VERB -ed] The bank has disbursed over $350m for the project. [VERB noun] Synonyms: pay out, spend, lay out, fork out [slang] More Synonyms of disburse.
to pay out money, usually from an amount that has been collected for a particular purpose: The local authorities annually disburse between $50 million and $100 million on arts projects. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Paying money. 2FA. 2SV. ante up (something) burn a hole in someone's pocket idiom. buying power. cost-cutting. fund.
verb pay out, spend, lay out, fork out (slang), expend, shell out (informal) The aid will not be disbursed until next year. Usage: Disburse is sometimes wrongly used where disperse is meant: the police used water cannons to disperse (not disburse) the crowd.
