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.
The poorer provinces, which were most in need of public-works programmes, were particularly unsuccessful at allocating and disbursing the funds.
Optimal tariffs are difficult to implement in practice, given the possibility of retaliation and the inefficiencies in disbursing the collected tariffs.
We shall be disbursing our increased resources and making announcements in the autumn.
Will he, therefore, make these people his first priority in disbursing any funds which may arise from the measures he proposes?
It will therefore have no responsibility for disbursing funds.
Of that, £0.3 billion comes from modulation, which effectively means removing money from farmers under one heading and disbursing it under another.
Difficult judgments must be made when disbursing money for the arts.
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.
