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disbursement|dɪsˈbɜːsmənt|
[f. disburse v. + -ment: cf. F. desboursement (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), now déb-.]
1. The action or fact of disbursing.
1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 651/1 The Queenes treasure in soe greate occasions of disbursementes..is not allwayes soe..plentifull, as it can spare soe greate a somme togither. 1665Hooke Microgr. Pref. G b, His chearful Disbursment for the replanting of Ireland. 1756–7Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 245 Upon any..extraordinary disbursement, the cause of the difference in the account must be carefully entered. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxii. (1862) V. 421 And that deficit was never so complete as to stop the disbursement of the Diobely.
2. That which has been disbursed; money paid out; expenditure.
1607Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 148 This is the whole disbursement for this yeare 1607. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. ix. 294 The surplus of receipts above disbursements. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxviii. (1862) III. 52 The visitors, whose disbursements went to enrich the inhabitants of Kirrha. |