dispenser

From Anglo-Norman dispensour, from Old French despenseor, from Latin dispensator. By surface analysis, dispense +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɛnsə/

dispenser (plural dispensers)

1. Something or someone that dispenses things.
   • 2014 October 30, Ben Brantley, “When the head leads the heart: 'The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, opens on Broadway [print version: When the witty head is far ahead of the heart: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor star in revival of 'Real Thing', International New York Times, 4 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times‎:

     While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.

   1. An object used to dispense other items.

      a toilet-paper dispenser

   2. A person who makes up prescriptions, such as an optician or pharmacist.

• derpiness

Borrowed from Latin dispēnsāre. Compare dépenser.

• IPA^(key): /dis.pɑ̃.se/

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dispenser

1. (transitive) to excuse, exempt (de from)
2. (transitive, literary) to dispense, give out, radiate
3. (transitive) to distribute, dispense
4. (reflexive) to avoid, refrain (de from)

• dispense
• dispensable
• dispensation
• dispensatoire
• dispensaire
• dispensateur
• dépenser

• “dispenser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From English dispenser, from Anglo-Norman dispensour, from Old French despenseor, from Latin dispensator.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: dis‧pèn‧sêr

dispènsêr (first-person possessive dispenserku, second-person possessive dispensermu, third-person possessive dispensernya)

1. dispenser
   1. (colloquial) water dispenser.

• “dispenser” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Unadapted borrowing from English dispenser.

• IPA^(key): /diˈspɛn.ser/
• Rhymes: -ɛnser
• Hyphenation: di‧spèn‧ser

dispenser m (invariable)

1. dispenser

   Synonyms: distributore, erogatore

• dispenser di sapone

• dispenser in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

dispēnser

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dispēnsō

From English dispenser.

dispenser m (definite singular dispenseren, indefinite plural dispensere, definite plural dispenserne)

1. a dispenser (object used to dispense)

• dispensere (verb)

• “dispenser” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dispenser” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English dispenser.

dispenser m (definite singular dispenseren, indefinite plural dispenserar, definite plural dispenserane)

1. a dispenser (object used to dispense)

• dispensere (verb)

• “dispenser” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

dispenser

1. indefinite plural of dispens