Crossword clues for disbursing
disbursing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disburse \Dis*burse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disbursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disbursing.] [OF. desbourser, F. d['e]bourser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + bourse purse. See Burse, and cf. Dispurse.] To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.
The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues.
--Macaulay.
Disbursing officer, an officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public money.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of disburse English)
Usage examples of "disbursing".
He's the ship's disbursing officer, so the first reaction has been to count the payroll.
I know it's nearly two years back, but surely there must have been at least routine paper on an officer supposedly going over the hill like that--especially if he was a disbursing officer.
And maybe we ought to call the Navy supply system--I forget their acronym, but those guys who do audits on disbursing officers when somebody thinks something isn't kosher.
Who knows how much of that time was spent serving the port, and how much of it was spent disbursing the public's money to Calvin Grigsby and other secret pals.