disburse
US/dɪsˈbɝs/
disburse verb: to pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
Verb
disburse (third-person singular simple present disburses, present participle disbursing, simple past and past participle disbursed)
- To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
- The consequent traffic is so grave that, last year, councils in England and Wales demanded that the government disburse £1bn a year to them so they could repair roads and tackle congestion.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
disburse meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Vietnamese
disburse in Tamil
- பிரித்துக் கொடு, பணம் வழங்கு
disburse in Malayalam
- പണം ചെലവഴിക്കുക, വിതരണം ചെയ്യുക, വ്യയം ചെയ്യുക
disburse in Kannada
- ಹಣಕೊಡು, ಬಟವಾಡೆ ಮಾಡು
disburse in Vietnamese
- to pay out
- giải ngân
Forms of disburse
| third-person singular present | disburses |
|---|---|
| present participle | disbursing |
| past participle | disbursed |
| past | disbursed |
Origin of disburse
From Old French desbourser (Modern French débourser). By surface analysis, dis- + burse (“purse”).
Words formed from disburse
Words that rhyme with disburse
36 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- purse
- worse
- -verse
- coerce
- converse
- excurse
- immerse
- multiverse
- obverse
- terce
- terse
- amerce
- asperse
- herse
- neurodiverse
- perse
- reimburse
- transverse
- a blessing and a curse
- absterse
- accurse
- costotransverse
- demerse
- Erse
- intertransverse
- megadiverse
- murse
- nontransverse
- pretransverse
- public purse
- recurse
- renverse
- sperse
- submerse
- subtransverse
- thurse
Questions about disburse
- What does disburse mean?
- Disburse means to pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
- What is disburse in Tamil?
- Disburse in Tamil is பிரித்துக் கொடு, பணம் வழங்கு. See Disburse meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is disburse?
- Disburse is a verb.
- How do you pronounce disburse?
- Disburse is pronounced /dɪsˈbɝs/ (US).
- What is the past tense of disburse?
- The past tense of disburse is disbursed.
Words near disburse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disburse (page history and authors); disburse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disburse (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disburse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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