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Meaning of dispensing

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

dispensing

verb

Definitions

  1. To issue, distribute, or give out.

  2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

    Example: to dispense justice

  3. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

    Example: An optician can dispense spectacles.

  4. To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.

noun

Definitions

  1. The act by which something is dispensed or served out.