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dispenses with

dispenses with is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dispense with.

Meaning of dispense with

Verb

dispense with (third-person singular simple present dispenses with, present participle dispensing with, simple past and past participle dispensed with)

  1. (transitive) To eliminate; to dispose of.
    • I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.
  2. (transitive) To do without.
    • The people hereabouts, sir, would seem to dispense with street illumination, and it is very dark tonight.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

Questions about dispenses with

What is dispenses with the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dispenses with is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dispense with.

Words near dispenses with in the dictionary

  1. dispensement
  2. dispensements
  3. dispenser
  4. dispensers
  5. dispenses
  6. dispenses with
  7. dispensest
  8. dispenseth
  9. dispensibility
  10. dispensible
  11. dispensing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispenses with (page history and authors); dispense with (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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