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English
Etymology
From Old French desbourser (modern: débourser). Equivalent to dis- + burse (“purse”).
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Verb
disburse (third-person singular simple present disburses, present participle disbursing, simple past and past participle disbursed)
- (finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian: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.
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(to pay out): shell out (informal), cough up (informal), fork out (informal), fork over (informal)
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