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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. Related Definitions:
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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 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 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 |
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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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