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dispense

/dɪsˈpɛns/
noun

  1. Cost, expenditure.

  2. The act of dispensing, dispensation.

verb

  1. To issue, distribute, or give out.

  2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

    "to dispense justice"

  3. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

    "An optician can dispense spectacles."

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