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disburses

disburses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disburse.

Meaning of disburse

Verb

disburse (third-person singular simple present disburses, present participle disbursing, simple past and past participle disbursed)

  1. 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

Questions about disburses

What is disburses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Disburses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disburse.

Words near disburses in the dictionary

  1. disbursed
  2. disbursement
  3. disbursements
  4. disburser
  5. disbursers
  6. disburses
  7. disbursing
  8. disburthen
  9. disburthened
  10. disburthening
  11. disburthens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disburses (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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