Definition of Dispose

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Dispose

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.

To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.

To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.

To bargain; to make terms.

Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.

Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.

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Dispose Quotations

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
P. J. O'Rourke

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
Sitting Bull

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Oliver Cromwell

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
Henry Charles Carey

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
Denis Kearney

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.
Tom Udall

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
S. J. Perelman

Dispose Translations

dispose in French is inciter, agencer, disposez, disposent, disposons
dispose in German is anordnen
dispose in Spanish is componer, inducir, reglamentar, decretar
dispose in Swedish is disponera

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