What is "disburse"

Usage examples of "disburse".

Although she was the one who disbursed monies to pay for the upkeep of Appleton Manor, Susanna had never met John Bexwith.

Cash, to the extent of a few thousand dollars, that Rupert Sandersham had left for his secretary, Atlee, to pay household bills and disburse among the various servants.

Military officers and civilian bureaucrats throughout the country threw themselves frenetically into the tasks of destroying their files and disbursing vast hoards of military supplies in illicit ways.

How often in the old days did the State disburse its precious moneys to bury men well able to pay for their own funerals?

She holds the household purse, disburses as she sees fit, and carries the keys.

Seeing my surprise, he added that there was not a nun whom one could not have by paying for her: that Murray had the courage to disburse five hundred sequins for a nun of Muran--a rare beauty, who was afterwards the mistress of the French ambassador.

He informed the Mission, however, that the payments would be made, not through its Washington disbursing office, but through the U.

Fifty percent of the sale price is immediately disbursed to the New York State Crime Victims Board, which was responsible for drafting the Son of Sam law that precludes state prisoners from profiting in any way from their crimes.

Francs, French and Swiss, British pounds, German D-marks, Dutch guilders, and Danish kroner were disbursed in vast quantities to purchase yen, whose relative value, everyone in Tokyo was sure, could only appreciate, especially if the Europeans pegged their currencies to the dollar.

It doesn't disburse the money, but it deducts from the depositors' accounts.

Let them be disbursed by our own public servants, and leave his Grace free to shoulder the burden of our defense!

Once the leftover traces of his craft were disbursed under blessing, Dakar stretched his sore shoulders.

A fine mist of energy spun away at his words, then disbursed into the black soil of the earth.

On the second, place a line for Neabyl to sign, saying that he has received a copy and disbursed exactly these funds.

No other member of his family had ever felt it incumbent upon him (or her) to repay the sums he had from time to time disbursed: all too many of them demanded unlimited largesse as a right.