disbursed
disbursed is the simple past and past participle of disburse.
Meaning of disburse
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
Words formed from disbursed
Questions about disbursed
- What is disbursed the simple past and past participle of?
- Disbursed is the simple past and past participle of disburse.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: disbursed (page history and authors); disburse (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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