Dispense
verb
To give out or hand out something to people.
The charity dispenses food to homeless people every weekend.
Often appears as...
- dispense justice
- dispense medicine
verb
To provide something such as a service, money, or information.
The machine dispenses a range of drinks and snacks.
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- dispense information
- dispense advice
verb
To manage without something; to forego something.
I think we can dispense with the formalities.
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- dispense with services
- dispense with formalities
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Approving
verb
To prepare and give out (medicine) according to a doctor's order.
The pharmacist dispensed the prescription medication.
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- dispense medication
- dispense prescription
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Technical
verb
To give out or hand out something to people.
The charity dispenses food to homeless people every weekend.
Often appears as...
- dispense justice
- dispense medicine
verb
To provide something such as a service, money, or information.
The machine dispenses a range of drinks and snacks.
Often appears as...
- dispense information
- dispense advice
verb
To manage without something; to forego something.
I think we can dispense with the formalities.
Often appears as...
- dispense with services
- dispense with formalities
Usage tips
Approving
verb
To prepare and give out (medicine) according to a doctor's order.
The pharmacist dispensed the prescription medication.
Often appears as...
- dispense medication
- dispense prescription
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Charitable Actions
Used when describing the distribution of aid in social or humanitarian situations, often implying compassion.
Local volunteers help dispense clothes and blankets to the flood victims.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Physical
'Dispense' isn't limited to tangible items; it can also involve distributing intangible things like wisdom or justice.
The wise elder dispenses invaluable life lessons to the younger generation.
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Evan Williams on what's...
used it to dispense news and updates as well. At this event, dozens of people here are Twittering and thousands of people around the world are following along because they want to know what it feels like to be here and what's happening. Among the other interesting things that have cropped up are many things from businesses,
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Stopping Pandemics, An...
said this week that it has actually come out with a vaccine now that it's going to start actually um inoculating uh people with this what do you think about that do you think they've actually got this vaccine and how close are we in this country to really having something and how do we begin to dispense it
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Aparna Rao: High-tech...
It's exactly the way my uncle uses a phone that's designed for one person. But the problem is that, when I left home and went to college, I started missing his commands. And so I made him a golden typewriter through which he could dispense his commands to nephews and nieces around the world as an email.
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Is there a difference...
alongside paintings and sculpture. So maybe it's time to dispense with vague terms like art and craft in favor of a word like visual arts that encompasses a wider array of aesthetic production. After all, if our appreciation of objects and their makers is so conditioned by our culture and history,
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A clever solution to the...
called it poor attacks because family space more just because they're low-income its widespread all local store around the world poor just can effort bigger packaging so it was in this context that idea for gram occurred to me it was possible to reduce dispenses on groceries in a sustainable
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How we can navigate the...
break up the relationship and I'm thinking to myself oh we suddenly become soldiers though such super heroes that we can dispense with the need for empathy - the need to understand how the world looks like from somebody who's looking at it from another perspective
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Climate Change Isn't a...
water is dispensed and my neighbors and I fill up our tanks, our water catchments, our bottles and our buckets. Our government has had to declare a state of national emergency, calling for help from our friends. Sea-level rising, flooding,
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Connected, but alone? PIPE...
out of real conversation, so used to getting by with less, that they've become almost willing to dispense with people altogether. So for example, many people share with me this wish, that some day a more advanced version of Siri,
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Connected, but alone? -...
with less that they become almost willing to dispense with people altogether so for example many people share with me this wish that some day a more advanced version of Siri the digital assistant on Apple's iPhone will
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Making data tangible PIPE...
thanks Bruno so how can artwork help us understand more about the complexity of data this isn't an ordinary vending machine if the machine that dispenses
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Evan Williams on what's...
used it to dispense news and updates as well. At this event, dozens of people here are Twittering and thousands of people around the world are following along because they want to know what it feels like to be here and what's happening. Among the other interesting things that have cropped up are many things from businesses,
Video examples
Stopping Pandemics, An...
said this week that it has actually come out with a vaccine now that it's going to start actually um inoculating uh people with this what do you think about that do you think they've actually got this vaccine and how close are we in this country to really having something and how do we begin to dispense it
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Aparna Rao: High-tech...
It's exactly the way my uncle uses a phone that's designed for one person. But the problem is that, when I left home and went to college, I started missing his commands. And so I made him a golden typewriter through which he could dispense his commands to nephews and nieces around the world as an email.
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Is there a difference...
alongside paintings and sculpture. So maybe it's time to dispense with vague terms like art and craft in favor of a word like visual arts that encompasses a wider array of aesthetic production. After all, if our appreciation of objects and their makers is so conditioned by our culture and history,
Video examples
A clever solution to the...
called it poor attacks because family space more just because they're low-income its widespread all local store around the world poor just can effort bigger packaging so it was in this context that idea for gram occurred to me it was possible to reduce dispenses on groceries in a sustainable
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How we can navigate the...
break up the relationship and I'm thinking to myself oh we suddenly become soldiers though such super heroes that we can dispense with the need for empathy - the need to understand how the world looks like from somebody who's looking at it from another perspective
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Climate Change Isn't a...
water is dispensed and my neighbors and I fill up our tanks, our water catchments, our bottles and our buckets. Our government has had to declare a state of national emergency, calling for help from our friends. Sea-level rising, flooding,
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Connected, but alone? PIPE...
out of real conversation, so used to getting by with less, that they've become almost willing to dispense with people altogether. So for example, many people share with me this wish, that some day a more advanced version of Siri,
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Connected, but alone? -...
with less that they become almost willing to dispense with people altogether so for example many people share with me this wish that some day a more advanced version of Siri the digital assistant on Apple's iPhone will
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Making data tangible PIPE...
thanks Bruno so how can artwork help us understand more about the complexity of data this isn't an ordinary vending machine if the machine that dispenses
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Reality television is to television what marble and gold are to real estate. The point is to dispense with the idea of taste. It's all id. The more unrestrained the better. We all know that 'reality' in reality television is not real. That anybody who would participate in reality television is a fake. But pretending otherwise makes them real.
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Lawrence G. Lovasik
American Clergyman
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
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John B. S. Haldane
British Scientist
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
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Andrew Yang
American Public Servant
I meet young people all the time who say something like, 'I want to work in venture capital.' And I can see why. Who wouldn't want to be smart, well-paid, dispense large sums of money, and tell people what to do?
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Trisha Goddard
English Entertainer
If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.
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Thabo Mbeki
South African Statesman
It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
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Eric Hoffer
American Writer
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
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Rita Mae Brown
American Writer
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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Steve Easterbrook
British Businessman
I'm honest and fair, but I don't dispense false kindness.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Reality television is to television what marble and gold are to real estate. The point is to dispense with the idea of taste. It's all id. The more unrestrained the better. We all know that 'reality' in reality television is not real. That anybody who would participate in reality television is a fake. But pretending otherwise makes them real.
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Lawrence G. Lovasik
American Clergyman
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
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John B. S. Haldane
British Scientist
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
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Andrew Yang
American Public Servant
I meet young people all the time who say something like, 'I want to work in venture capital.' And I can see why. Who wouldn't want to be smart, well-paid, dispense large sums of money, and tell people what to do?
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Trisha Goddard
English Entertainer
If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.
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Thabo Mbeki
South African Statesman
It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
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Eric Hoffer
American Writer
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
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Rita Mae Brown
American Writer
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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Steve Easterbrook
British Businessman
I'm honest and fair, but I don't dispense false kindness.
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