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dispensing with

dispensing with is the present participle and gerund 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 dispensing with

What is dispensing with the present participle and gerund of?
Dispensing with is the present participle and gerund of dispense with.

Words near dispensing with in the dictionary

  1. dispensest
  2. dispenseth
  3. dispensibility
  4. dispensible
  5. dispensing
  6. dispensing with
  7. dispensings
  8. dispensome
  9. dispensomes
  10. dispenst
  11. dispent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispensing 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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