0 present 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.
It has an education system, multiracial schools and the means of disbursing and using that money in the best possible way.
It is crucial for the global health fund to adopt a co-ordinated strategy when disbursing funds, rather than finding ad hoc projects.
We have disbursed £60 million this year, and we are well on the way to disbursing all of it.
In this instance, apparently, a leader has no control over him whatsoever when disbursing these large sums of money.
There have also been regular and frequent contacts at official level to seek to move forward with disbursing our assistance.
It has important business to do in disbursing these moneys, and in its other duties.
I agree that they guarded their flank by disbursing extra charity to the poor.
His charity could, without lifting a finger, disburse 10 times as much as it was disbursing to the poor, and it was disbursing £80,000.
