What's the difference between disburser and spender?
Disburser
Definition:
(n.) One who disburses money.
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.
Spender
Definition:
(n.) One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many shops are now catering to these high spenders.
(2) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol.
(3) If the rest of the world assumes that the US is once again going to become the world's spender of last resort it is seriously mistaken.
(4) As Stephen Spender wrote in a review, "Vidal's essays celebrate the triumphs of private values over the public ones of power.
(5) Hollande's proposals were also eagerly awaited by the Sarkozy camp, hoping to discredit the Socialists as big spenders at a time when public money is scarce.
(6) "From being driven, careless, impulsive, the new breed of shopper is a very careful spender.
(7) Some of the biggest spenders were not included in Friday's reports because, technically, they are not considered campaign operations.
(8) "Historically, the main photographic moment for the project was 1937 to 1938," says Roberts, "and it was Spender who emerged as the poet-photographer of the group, merging press photography and British documentary realism in a way that often nods to Brassaï and surrealism.
(9) Now Saudi Arabia is the mark; one of the most repressive tyrannies on the planet which already has one of the largest stocks of armaments (at $48bn, it was the seventh largest military spender in 2011).
(10) Britain remains the fourth-biggest military spender in the world, but the very scale of that spending – currently £34bn a year – makes it a tempting target for Whitehall economisers.
(11) All the debt ceiling ends up becoming is a political football used by the opposition party to suggest the government are profligate spenders.
(12) There, Bowles came into contact with Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood and Jean Ross, Isherwood's model for Sally Bowles in Goodbye to Berlin.
(13) By the age of 18, the charismatic, talented young man with a famous name had attracted friends such as Stephen Spender and the wealthy collector and patron Peter Watson.
(14) King said the government would have to put the public finances on a more sustainable footing and warned people that they would have to become savers rather than spenders in the years ahead.
(15) Paradoxically, though, Spender's photographs , which are now recognised as an important part of the Mass Observation archive, were never used at the time.
(16) In her seminal treatise Man Made Language , the feminist theorist Dale Spender makes the argument that language is a system that embodies sexual inequality.
(17) The Nature Conservancy, by far the biggest spender on lobbying among environment groups, spent $850,000.
(18) Apart from Sturgeon (whose record the others don’t know much about) he was the only incumbent defending his government (surprise, surprise, Clegg was bent on Tory-bashing) and kept saying all his rivals are high-tax-and-spenders.
(19) The average expenditure for the top 1 percent of spenders in 1987 was $47,331.
(20) Julie Gardner, the former head of drama for BBC Wales and Doctor Who executive, who is now working in the US, emerged as the second highest spender on hospitality overall, claiming £7,764.51 in 2008-09, just £276.22 less than the director general.