Usually means: Distribute or provide goods, services.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word dispense:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispense: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dispense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dispense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dispense: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dispense: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dispense, dispense: Wordnik
  7. dispense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dispense: Wiktionary
  9. dispense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dispense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dispense: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dispense: Dictionary.com
  13. dispense: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dispense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dispense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dispense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dispense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dispense: Rhymezone
  19. dispense, dispense (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dispense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dispense: Free Dictionary
  22. dispense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dispense: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. dispense: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispense: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dispense: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. dispense: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispense: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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