disposer

English

Etymology

dispose +‎ -er

Noun

disposer (plural disposers)

1. One who disposes.
   • 2005, Code of Federal Regulations, page 699:

     Offer the PCB waste to transporters, disposers, or commercial storers of PCB waste who have not received an EPA identification number.

Derived terms

• food waste disposer

Anagrams

• dropsies

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dispōnere, and influenced by French poser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.po.ze/

• Audio

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Verb

disposer

1. (transitive) to organize, to arrange, to distribute in a certain fashion
2. (transitive) to prepare (something) for an occasion, to incline (someone) towards
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to prepare oneself for, to be about to
4. (intransitive) to have at one's disposal or available; to have access to
   • Jeudi, la commission avait déjà annoncé qu'elle disposait de suffisamment d'éléments pour invalider la candidature de Mikhaïl Kassianov. (Le Monde, 25 Feb 2008)

     The commission had already announced on Thursday that it had enough information to invalidate Mikhail Kassianov's candidature.

5. (intransitive) to use someone to do one's biddings
6. (intransitive) to leave, to go

   Merci, vous pouvez disposer. ― Thank you, you may leave.

7. (intransitive, law) to make use of one's right of dismembering, selling or otherwise dispose of a certain owned item
8. (transitive, rare) to prepare psychologically
9. (intransitive, rare) to take measures, to decree

Usage notes

• The indirect object in the intransitive construction is introduced by de; in the transitive and pronominal constructions, it is introduced by à.

Conjugation

Related terms

• disposé

Further reading

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