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dispersals

dispersals is the plural of dispersal.

Meaning of dispersal

Noun

dispersal (countable and uncountable, plural dispersals)

  1. The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.
    • For a time, Okeh picked up the disk for national dispersal.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 145
  2. A dispersal prison.
    • Problems of control in dispersals and in other prisons necessarily instigated a multiplicity of working theories to explain the difficulties […]2012, D. Drake, Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security

Questions about dispersals

What is dispersals the plural of?
Dispersals is the plural of dispersal.

Words near dispersals in the dictionary

  1. dispersal prisons
  2. dispersalism
  3. dispersalist
  4. dispersalistic
  5. dispersalists
  6. dispersals
  7. dispersant
  8. dispersants
  9. disperse
  10. disperse phase
  11. disperse phases

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