0 an amount of money given for a particular purpose
1 a large payment of money, for example, from a bank, organization, or government, or the act of making such a payment:
Have you figured up the total of the disbursements I told you of?
It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.
It was his general principle to vote for any thing that looked to the disbursement of money.
The State takes a sensible view of the disbursements of the inheritance of a minor.
The military disbursements have been regularly made and the accounts regularly and promptly rendered for settlement.
This establishment is upon so vast a scale, that government, which is the proprietor, is always a loser upon balancing the receipts and disbursements of each night.
Precious metal coinages and the mass disbursements of imported wine, attested in a few regions archaeologically, fit comfortably into an analysis of this kind.
The bill of fees and disbursements tendered by their attorney amounted to £111-10-10, taxed to £102-12-11.
