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Disbursement

Disbursement \Dis*burse"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]boursement.]

  1. The act of disbursing or paying out.

    The disbursement of the public moneys.
    --U. S. Statutes.

  2. That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disbursement

1590s; see disburse + -ment.

Wiktionary
disbursement

n. 1 The act, instance, or process of disburse. 2 Money pay out or spent.

WordNet
disbursement

  1. n. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) [syn: expense, disbursal]

  2. the act of spending or disbursing money [syn: spending, disbursal, outlay]

Usage examples of "disbursement".

The Board consists of twelve Commissioners, who have the general supervision of the schools, the disbursement of the moneys appropriated for the cause of education, the purchase of sites and the erection of new buildings, the purchase and distribution of books, stationery, fuel, lights, and all supplies needed by the schools.

Grissom wants a thousand dollars retainer plus disbursements against sixty percent of the settlement to handle it.

Governor-General and the Secretary of War an annual report of the fiscal concerns of the government, showing the receipts and disbursements of the various departments and bureaus of the government and of the various Provinces and municipalities, and make such other reports as may be required of him by the Governor-General or the Secretary of War.

Mob rule and general looting in the main disbursement centers had kept armed authority busy and attrited until the militia finally vanished into the disturbances it had been sent to quell.

The plaintiff will be awarded an attorney's fee in this court and in the court below both to be fixed by the district court upon there, billings disbursements depositions prepositions all of it, the more the better, limousines, airplanes, Mister Basic flying around the country buying drinks for the house in the Beverly Wilshire all of it, give them a nice tax writeoff isn't that what you said?

Do NOT use this form if your total pensions and annuities disbursements were greater than your advanced earned income credits OR vice versa.

Johnson, itemizing the disbursement of 120,000 nuyenlo Demolition Man Building Services Inc.

There was a fund raiser for a senator that night, one of those glittering dinners requiring the attendance of wealthy patrons, collectors, curators and anyone else who wanted to contribute to the campaign chests of the senator whose committee oversaw the disbursement of federal grants to the arts.

He was, in some ways, much harder to listen to in the further disbursement of people--whom he regarded as renewable resources--and of irreplaceable material, which the colony had to conserve.

Who dares take a risk, especially when disbursements are large and returns remote?

It will use up most of what we have, until we get another disbursement of funds from the Grand Metropolitan.