0 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.
1 if a bank, organization, or government disburses money, it officially pays it to someone:
Up to now, the foundation has disbursed $1.3 million.
disburse sth to sb The money was disbursed to employees as a bonus.
The poorer provinces, which were most in need of public-works programmes, were particularly unsuccessful at allocating and disbursing the funds.
Profits of cattle and money are built up to disburse on both the dead and the living at funerals and tomb building.
Wages were disbursed irregularly, the sum of each payment fluctuated, and the monthly wage served as the standard for wage payment.
Optimal tariffs are difficult to implement in practice, given the possibility of retaliation and the inefficiencies in disbursing the collected tariffs.
As the municipality's executive agent, he was to prepare the budget, collect and disburse revenue, and report to the council regarding municipal finance.
A lot of aid was disbursed from the masjid.
Of the $25 million allocated for the project, only $9.1 million was disbursed.
The clothiers then collected the woven cloth from the families and disbursed wages in return.
