disburse
verbUS /dɪsˈbɝs/
Etymology From Old French desbourser (Modern French débourser). By surface analysis, dis- + burse (“purse”).
- The consequent traffic is so grave that, last year, councils in England and Wales demanded that the government disburse £1bn a year to them so they could repair roads and tackle congestion.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
- Derived terms
- disbursement, disburser, nondisbursed, redisburse, undisbursed