Usually means: Distributes or gives out supplies.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispenses: Merriam-Webster
  2. dispenses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dispenses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dispenses, dispenses: Wordnik
  5. dispenses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dispenses: Wiktionary
  7. dispenses: Dictionary.com
  8. dispenses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dispenses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispenses: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispenses: Medical dictionary

(Note: See dispense as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dispense)

verb:  To issue, distribute, or give out.
verb:  To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
verb:  To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
verb:  (particularly in canon law) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
noun:  (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
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