Crossword clues for disposal
disposal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disposal \Dis*pos"al\, n. [From Dispose.]
The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.
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Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.
The execution leave to high disposal.
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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.
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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
Wiktionary
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
n. the power to use something or someone; "used all the resources at his disposal"
a method of tending to (especially business) matters [syn: administration]
the act or means of getting rid of something [syn: disposition]
a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage [syn: electric pig, garbage disposal]
Wikipedia
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.