| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To arrange, prepare, organize, adjust or collocate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To fit or accommodate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To ordain, enact, preordain or prescribe. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To array or order. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To fix, coordinate, conclude, mend or settle.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb dispose.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dispose) | 1. Give, sell, or transfer to another; "She disposed of her parents' possessions".[Wordnet]. 2. Throw or cast away.[Wordnet]. 3. Make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief.[Wordnet]. 4. Place or put in a particular order; "the dots are unevenly disposed".[Wordnet]. 5. Make fit or prepared.[Wordnet]. 6. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.[Websters]. 7. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.[Websters]. 8. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.[Websters]. 9. To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.[Websters]. 10. To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.[Websters]. 11. To bargain; to make terms.[Websters]. 12. Base verb from the following inflections: disposing, disposed, disposes, disposer, disposers, disposingly and disposedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being concluding.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being developing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being governing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being engrossing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being motivating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being encouraging, stimulating, energizing or energising. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being commanding. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being infuriating or maddening. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being trim or tidy.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DISPOSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISPOSING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Setting in order; arranging; distributing; bestowing; regulating; adjusting; governing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Public Administration | The last stage in the records management cycle is the --. Of course, all records that no longer serve a useful purpose should be destroyed; also: disposing; disposition p. 220). Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of dispose. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: dispose
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Dispose of | Deal with or settle. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DISPOSING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Disposing of | Environment | Carrying out disposal, which includes either the destruction or the donation of temporary records but not the transfer of permanent records to the National Archives. See also DISPOSAL (1), FINAL DISPOSITION. (references) | |
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