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disbursing

disbursing is the present participle and gerund 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

Phrases with disbursing

Questions about disbursing

What is disbursing the present participle and gerund of?
Disbursing is the present participle and gerund of disburse.

Words near disbursing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disbursing (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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