Definizione monolingua

dispense

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

1. To issue, distribute, or put out.
   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 40:

     The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.

2. To eliminate or do without–used intransitively with with.

   I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.

dispense (plural dispenses)

1. (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
2. (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:

     what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].

Definizione dizionario dispense

dispensare

	somministrare
	To give or apply (medications).

amministrare

distribuire

elargire

Altri significati:

To eliminate or do without–used intransitively with with.

(obsolete) Cost, expenditure.

To issue, distribute, or put out.

To issue, distribute, or put out

(obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.