dispense🔊

To issue, distribute, or give out.

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

To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

(canon law) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.

(obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

(obsolete) Cost, expenditure.

(obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.