(v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, controversy and differing opinions about the disbursement of contraceptives remains.
(2) Everything has to move quickly because delaying the discussion and delaying the disbursement of the [next tranche] does not help the real economy.
(3) It also points to the huge benefits of small and rapid disbursements of funding: one doctor said that, had DfID provided him with the £7,500 he repeatedly asked for in June 2014 for eight isolation units, the money would have had the impact of “hundreds of thousands of pounds later on”.
(4) The OMP, due to run until 2014, has disbursed £3m to date.
(5) Less than half of the $5.1bn pledged to counter the epidemic has so far been disbursed.
(6) Only in this way could they assume active stewardship over the disbursement of their fortunes, applying the knowledge, expertise and temperament that gained them their piles toward the difficult task of giving them away.
(7) Hardly any development funding for implementation has been disbursed.” 68 million children likely to die by 2030 from preventable causes, report says Read more Dr David Richmond, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said the series offered a “wake-up call to governments worldwide to make faster progress in reducing the number of stillbirths, which wreak untold damage on families, care givers and communities”.
(8) Ciff has already disbursed $7.5m from its overall $20m commitment : $2m to support MSF’s work on the ground, $3m to the Red Cross, and $2.5m to support Unicef in Sierra Leone.
(9) The group, which does not speak Creole, relies on a young local fixer to select beneficiaries, disburse funds and keep records.
(10) There is often pressure to disburse aid rapidly and there are immense organisational challenges in suddenly expanding the scope and scale of programme delivery.
(11) Although this is not new money, the cash will now be disbursed with more urgency to kickstart infrastructure projects currently struggling for credit with the hope of galvanising private spending.
(12) Speaking after the meeting in Brussels, he said it was too early to make a decision on unlocking the next tranche of Greece’s €86bn (£73bn) bailout, but he hoped agreement on reforms would make a disbursal of funds possible.
(13) Mrs Ecclestone received disbursements from the trusts, in other words she also has a personal asset.
(14) The system of a government official inspecting toilets before disbursing money doesn’t work because toilet users do not feel ownership, he argues.
(15) Records suggest Inhofe’s 2014 campaign was a funding priority for the BP PAC, ranking as one of the top recipients of committee funds when compared with disbursements to other serving senators.
(16) The report adds: "Finance for adaptation is an obligation – it must be separate and additional to aid commitments, in the form of grants not loans, and disbursed through equitable governance mechanisms."
(17) Aides say the conservative leader will impress upon Barroso for rescue funds to be released as soon as possible saying “with the budget vote Greece has done its bit, now it is up to Europe to do the same.” The Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras, who is in Brussels, says despite disagreement between the EU and IMF over how to resolve Greece’s debt sustainability, disbursement of the long-delayed €31.5bn aid package is now a “done deal.” The technocrat said he believed the entire amount would be “deposited in an account at the Bank of Greece by the end of November or early December” once individual member state parliaments had voted on the package.
(18) The average payment of £700 plus disbursements has not increased since 2003, and less than half of those who apply are successful anyway."
(19) He recommends a punitive or even 100% tax, and a low or zero tax on their disbursement.
(20) Britain is yet to make a decision on whether to disburse the remaining £8m, which is due in December.
Spend
Definition:
(v. t.) To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
(v. t.) To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
(v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
(v. t.) To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
(v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
(v. i.) To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
(v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
(v. i.) To be diffused; to spread.
(v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.
Example Sentences:
(1) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
(2) You can't spend more than you take in, and you can't keep doing it for ever and ever and ever.
(3) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(4) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(5) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(6) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(7) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(8) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
(9) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(10) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(11) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(12) The public finance forecasts are linked to those growth predictions, since stronger growth means healthier tax receipts and lower spending on unemployment benefit and other welfare measures.
(13) Yes, we need consumption to get the economy moving, but if you spend more than you have, you’re not helping anyone and certainly not helping yourself.
(14) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(15) Unfortunately, under the Faustian pact we have witnessed a double whammy: fiscal policy being used to reduce government spending when the economy is already depressed.
(16) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(17) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(18) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
(19) The share of expected transport infrastructure spending also moved away from cleaner public transport to roads and airports, which together rose from 8% to 36% of the total in 2015-20.
(20) Mallon's finance and resources director, Paul Slocombe, thinks Pickles's argument is "slightly disingenuous" because the funding was part of the last spending review, which ends on 31 March.