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:
The disbursements resulting from them, also, usually extend over a number of years.
In 1965 disbursements of fully tied financial aid exceeded £54 million.
Funeral directors cannot negotiate disbursements because they are fixed.
Insurance premiums and disbursements are generally low in personal injury cases, and we expect solicitors' firms to bear the costs as normal business overheads.
The average amount of disbursements paid out by solicitors in cases costing £4,000 or less was only £304.
Naturally, against this income from shipping services must be set various costs and disbursements abroad last year, which totalled £526 million.
Disbursements have risen from £5·7 million in 1957–58 to £40·5 million in 1962–63.
One must remember that commitments are very different from disbursements.
