0 past simple and past participle of disburse
1 to pay out money, usually from an amount that has been collected for a particular purpose:
The local authorities annually disburse between £50 million and £100 million on arts projects.
That left 21 million euros to be disbursed in response to the floods in the form of short-term activities.
The senator's convictions were that work should be required of able-bodied welfare recipients, and that aid should not be disbursed to them as an entitlement on the basis of need.
Church plate, vestments, ' old baggage ', chimes, basins, blue cloths, bells, old iron, and much more were all sold off, with a portion of the proceeds being disbursed to the poor.
Alms were collected at church services, and the bread purchased thereby was certainly disbursed at the church door, a very public display of charity, hierarchy and dependence.
In their new island, the banks managed by the previous generation have already disbursed goods stored from the previous period to the old nonmovers.
Charitable traditions persisted, with regular doles being disbursed.
However, because the proposed payment is disbursed after death, coercion may be eliminated.
They are evenly split between clustered and disbursed settlement patterns and virtually all have clear boundaries.