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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disposal
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bomb disposal experts/team/squad/unit
▪ The device, which contained 400lbs of explosive, was made safe by army bomb disposal experts.
bomb disposal (=the job of dealing with bombs that have not exploded)
▪ a bomb disposal expert
bomb disposal
▪ The device, which contained 400lbs of explosive, was made safe by army bomb disposal experts.
garbage disposal
waste disposal
▪ the problem of radioactive waste disposal
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
▪ Sites are being selected for final disposal of radioactive waste.
immediate
▪ From this reserve and from the immediate disposal of existing assets, trusts can make acquisitions of new assets.
▪ The one mechanism they have at their immediate disposal to stimulate growth is the exchange rate of their currencies.
▪ Social workers must first diagnose the problems and then help with such practical aids as they have at their immediate disposal.
nuclear
▪ The banning of the annual sea dump brought the issue of nuclear waste disposal into even sharper focus.
▪ Discussions of future reactor safety should revolve about two critical issues: nuclear waste disposal and nuclear weapons proliferation.
▪ She added that the party would not approve the construction of nuclear waste disposal facilities.
▪ For nuclear waste, disposal into space is more feasible but has been discounted on numerous occasions because of the risks.
▪ In the process, it had simply underlined the almost intractable dangers of nuclear waste disposal.
safe
▪ New powers to refuse wastes and revoke licences are potentially powerful weapons in controlling the movement and safe disposal of wastes.
▪ Infection control policy An infection control policy should be available to staff, emphasising he importance of the safe disposal of sharps.
▪ Methanogenesis is a safe and effective disposal route for H 2.
▪ Face washing and improved hygiene of young children; and Environmental improvement with safer water and disposal of animal and human waste.
waste
▪ I have never come across a people more obsessed with waste disposal.
▪ In general, how-ever, these problems pale to insignificance compared to the problem of radioactive waste disposal.
▪ Although waste disposal sites are well controlled, there is an ever present risk of pollution.
▪ In terms of databases on hazardous wastes, attention has already been drawn to the waste disposal plans prepared by WRAs.
▪ It retained water and yet had subtle membranes which permitted air to penetrate and facilitated waste disposal of the embryo.
▪ In recent years, most countries have tightened their standards of waste disposal.
▪ It helps to get the lymph fluid - a vital part of the body's waste disposal system - flowing.
▪ The subsequent examination of potential releases from processes or waste disposal, together with environmental pathways is brief.
■ NOUN
bomb
▪ It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House.
▪ One of the devices went off before bomb disposal squads arrived.
▪ The device went off at 12.30am as bomb disposal men were about to carry out a remote-controlled explosion with a robot.
▪ The bomb disposal unit destroyed the bomb with a controlled explosion.
▪ Approval will also be given to supply bomb disposal equipment and goods for civilian end-users.
▪ The most advanced bomb disposal centre in the world has been officially opened by the Duke of Kent.
▪ The army's bomb disposal experts say the lesson is simple ... report anything suspicious, especially in the run up to Christmas.
▪ Army bomb disposal experts from Catterick military base in north Yorkshire are examining debris from both devices.
experts
▪ The army's bomb disposal experts say the lesson is simple ... report anything suspicious, especially in the run up to Christmas.
▪ The recent final of a tournament organised by mine-disposal experts drew a crowd of 17,000.
▪ Army bomb disposal experts from Catterick military base in north Yorkshire are examining debris from both devices.
garbage
▪ The man who shared her apartment was surly, unfriendly, and always complaining about the lifts and the garbage disposal.
▪ Her gear shifts sounded like twenty cooks pushing trays of silverware into an industrial-strength garbage disposal.
▪ Run lemon wedges or fresh mint leaves through garbage disposal to kill odors.
▪ On the other hand, we understand why you would prefer not to see usable food go down the garbage disposal.
rubbish
▪ There should be some kind of rubbish disposal facility and you need proper campsites for the trekkers, with camp wardens.
sewage
▪ Not surprisingly, these sites usually lack a water supply and provision for sewage disposal.
▪ Examples would include the provision and maintenance of fences, roads, drains, sewers and private sewage disposal works.
▪ Smog and acid rain, water pollution and sewage disposal, dams and river-flows will become ever more contentious issues.
▪ A survey will be carried out of sewage disposal systems and it is highly likely that major expenditure will be necessary.
site
▪ Although waste disposal sites are well controlled, there is an ever present risk of pollution.
▪ Clean mud could go to upland or, perhaps, ocean disposal sites.
▪ It's because the landfill disposal site at Stanford in the Vale is full that the changes have been made.
▪ The Department of Environment has confirmed the figure of 1,300 problem waste disposal sites.
▪ Option 3: Producer has a contract with named licensed disposal site.
▪ Secondly no one has yet tackled the technical problems of finding suitable disposal sites on land or at sea.
squad
▪ One of the devices went off before bomb disposal squads arrived.
system
▪ It helps to get the lymph fluid - a vital part of the body's waste disposal system - flowing.
▪ A survey will be carried out of sewage disposal systems and it is highly likely that major expenditure will be necessary.
team
▪ It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House.
▪ Examination by a disposal team established that the contents were capable of causing damage or injury.
▪ A bomb disposal team made the grenade safe.
unit
▪ The bomb disposal unit destroyed the bomb with a controlled explosion.
▪ So save pounds on expensive waste disposal units by strapping Rover under your sink.
■ VERB
arise
▪ Brought-forward trading losses can be set against balancing charges arising on the disposal of the target assets.
▪ Operating losses incurred were £427,000 with further £524,000 losses arising from the disposal of Applied Skills for Management.
▪ In such a case the company may face corporation tax arising from the disposal of its chargeable assets.
▪ The results include £11.58m arising from the disposal of the joint records venture.
put
▪ Pre-prepared training packs or videos are put at their disposal.
▪ The 60 or so hours he put at our disposal fled by.
▪ In such a way are the clothes of the dead put away for disposal.
▪ An empty house just a mile or two outside St Margaret's Hope village was put at the disposal of the Committee.
▪ Her records were, of course, put at his disposal.
▪ Nottingham Castle may have been put at his disposal but d'Aubigny did not trust our Henry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ease of repair and ease of disposal were almost wholly neglected.
▪ In its many forms, disposal of the dead has always been big business, and always subject to fashion.
▪ In promoting recycling as the best answer to waste disposal, environmentalists are therefore swimming against the tides of the market.
▪ The borrowers were companies involved in scrap metal and disposal, and property.
▪ These data support the existence of alternative pathways for H 2 disposal in man.
▪ They had at their disposal a very powerful light infan-try army with experienced officers and very high morale.
▪ This interest is undoubtedly driven by the search for plastic materials derived from sustainable carbon sources and which biodegrade naturally upon disposal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disposal

Disposal \Dis*pos"al\, n. [From Dispose.]

  1. The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

  2. Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.

    The execution leave to high disposal.
    --Milton.

  3. Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property.

    A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life.
    --Tatler.

  4. Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of.

    The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns.
    --South.

    Syn: Disposition; dispensation; management; conduct; government; distribution; arrangement; regulation; control.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disposal

1620s, "power to make use of;" see dispose + -al (2); of waste material, from c.1960, originally in medical use.

Wiktionary
disposal

alt. 1 An arrangement, categorization or classification of things 2 a dispose of or getting rid of something 3 the power to use something or someone n. 1 An arrangement, categorization or classification of things 2 a dispose of or getting rid of something 3 the power to use something or someone

WordNet
disposal
  1. n. the power to use something or someone; "used all the resources at his disposal"

  2. a method of tending to (especially business) matters [syn: administration]

  3. the act or means of getting rid of something [syn: disposition]

  4. a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage [syn: electric pig, garbage disposal]

Wikipedia
Disposal

Disposal may refer to:

  • Bomb disposal, the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe
  • Dispose pattern in computer programming
  • Disposal of human corpses, the practice and process of dealing with the remains of a deceased human being
  • Disposal tax effect, a concept in economics
  • Garbage disposal, a device installed under a kitchen sink between the sink's drain and the trap which shreds food waste into pieces small enough to pass through plumbing
  • Ship disposal, the disposing of a ship after it has reached the end of its effective or economic service life with an organisation
  • Waste disposal, the getting rid of waste materials
  • Disposal, a statistic in Australian rules football referring to kicks or handballs.

Usage examples of "disposal".

Lebret that whatever he might leave to Auguste should not be placed at his absolute disposal.

According to an FBI informant, a wealthy Barnett supporter in Mississippi had arranged for four P-51 Mustang Canadian surplus fighter planes to be flown from Wisconsin to an abandoned World War II B-17 airstrip in western Tennessee, then flown to Mississippi and placed at the disposal of Governor Barnett.

Arriving at the dock, the buckets were lifted by electrically-operated stiff-leg derricks and their contents deposited on scows for final disposal.

Ceylon and the Cingalese that was possible in the limited time at our disposal.

S-traps, guest washbowls -- two -- main traps, rain leaders, waste pipes, leap bends, downstairs toilet, vanity hand-basin, kitchen sink, central heating radiators, boilers, header tanks, cleanouts, inspection covers and disposal outlets.

We lacked enough material to test for trace constituents, but later on with more eggs at our disposal we did and nothing unusual showed up as far as contents of vitamins, coenzymes, nucleotides, sulfhydryl groups, et cetera, et cetera were concerned.

He was gone the next day, and so was the whole sack of yellow crystals meant for the disposal pits.

Today I am two hundred and nine qualified beings, who have at their instant disposal all knowledge accumulated in my nonliving part and all its ability to analyze and integrate.

Kingsmen army of Ursal at his disposal, the Allheart Knights among them, and many thousands more in reserve, gathered from the lands about Entel.

France signed on condition that Japan would use her influence on China to break relations with Germany and place at the disposal of the Allies the German ships interned in Chinese ports.

It certainly could not have been the intention to place the rules and limits of maritime law under the disposal and regulation of the several States, as that would have defeated the uniformity and consistency at which the Constitution aimed on all subjects of a commercial character affecting the intercourse of the States with each other or with foreign states.

The Grid and fucked and sucked and squirmed and squeezed and licked and swallowed and thrust and parried and pureed and mashed and diced and attacked and retreated and submitted and dominated and slapped and bled and drank and spit and twitched and quivered and slid and slopped, and, well, it was too much for the old synapses back home in the physical body, and they, well, they blew engines and tires and transmissions, they DIED, many of them, hundreds a day, and they were carted off, stiff and smiling -- most died smiling -- except those that had been CLAPPED: they died with their eyes open, twitching -- and the bodies were carted away by orderlies and dumped onto The Disposal Carriage, which moved briskly away like an airport escalator and carried the fleshy lumps behind a curtain where they toppled over the edge of The Ramp and down into a large vat.

It is at your disposal, which is not to say we should recommend your walking out on to the street with it.

Still, the numerologists have some material at their disposal that can yield bewildering results if twisted out of normal context.

Men before Herjellsen had doubted the sensibility-independent nature of space and time, notably and most famously the tiny, hunchbacked, brilliant Prussian, Immanuel Kant, but Kant had not had at his disposal the mathematics of polydimensional temporalities, and Kant had been rational in a way that Herjellsen was not.