MEANING
To pay out money from a fund, usually to meet obligations or distribute an allocation.
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Words that belong together
- disburse funds
- disburse a grant
- disburse payments
On the page
The relief office could not disburse the grant until the missing ledger was found.
At dawn, the steward disbursed a week's wages to men who no longer trusted his promises.
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Word forms
- Base
- disburse
- Past tense
- disbursed
- Past participle
- disbursed
- Present participle
- disbursing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disburse
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disbursing
- Present perfect
- have/has disbursed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disbursing
- Past
- disbursed
- Past continuous
- was/were disbursing
- Past perfect
- had disbursed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disbursing
- Future
- will disburse
- Future continuous
- will be disbursing
- Future perfect
- will have disbursed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disbursing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: disburse; disburses; disbursed; disbursed; disbursing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: disburses.
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