Definition of dispense in English:

dispense

verb dɪˈspɛnsdəˈspɛns

1with object Distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people.
分发；提供（服务，信息）
orderlies went round dispensing drinks
勤务兵四处分发饮料。
Example sentencesExamples
- Urban police departments, which tended to be highly politicized and run by party bosses, were also frequently tools for dispensing social services and other forms of political patronage.
- As they dispensed care and advice to them, they realized a much larger audience could benefit from their advice if they put it in writing.
- As we walk past snake after snake, Myers dispenses facts.
- And the doctor must be familiar with the issues that are important to young people and know how to draw out information and dispense advice without sounding preachy.
- Being educated to study the human body and being able to dispense care and get paid for it is a privilege, and the best doctors realize this.
- So all you guys out there listen up, I am going to dispense this information to you all, free of charge.
- University programs reported increased interest from potential candidates, providing an opportunity to dispense program information widely.
- A mine of information, Johnston also dispenses the type of wisdom not necessarily included in the book.
- It also dispensed pastoral care to the white settlers.
- Another thing, the purpose of this column is not to dispense medical information.
- So they use the public sector not to provide services but to dispense patronage; they use trade protection to distribute favours.
- One of the biggest problems during that disaster was getting and dispensing accurate information, especially in Topanga's isolated canyon enclaves.
- Yet, she dispenses advice about marriage and childraising with no second thoughts.
- The 5 p.m. embargo gives the Pentagon plenty of time to dispense the information to Capitol Hill and other agencies.
- The gravel-voiced bar-owner Phil dispenses drink and advice in about equal measure and is like a father figure to her.
- Mrs Canas said there was no one organisation to take responsibility for dispensing information and professionals assumed people already knew things.
- It's their job to dispense information effectively and accurately.
- Partly, I suspect, this is because many health campaigners dispense factual information devoid of social context.
- There is no central nursing station for gathering or dispensing information.
- We look to the media to dispense information to help us make our choices.
Synonyms
distribute, pass round, pass out, hand out, deal out, dole out, share out, divide out, parcel out, allocate, allot, apportion, assign, bestow, confer, supply, disburse
informal dish out
1. 1.1 (of a machine or container) supply or release (a product or cash)
  （机器）提供（产品或现金）
  the machines dispense a range of drinks
  这些机器发售各种各样的饮料和小吃。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Customers buy credit on a smartcard, which they swipe when they want to try a wine, and the machine dispenses it.
  He suggested a ticket dispensing machine at the car park.
  The screen of the cash dispenser displays the ironic message, ‘We apologise for the inconvenience, but this machine does not dispense cash at the moment.’
  Ask about the availability of cash dispensing machines in the area you are visiting.
  Based on iris recognition technology, the machines will dispense cash, cinema tickets and postage stamps, and the company intends offering further applications including on-line shopping and bill payment.
  Look for ATM-like machines dispensing DVDs to pop up across the U.S. this year.
  They enquired where was the machine that dispensed the parking discs.
  After my money was dispensed from the machine, I grabbed the receipt and started walking off, when I noticed that the ATM had spat out a second piece of paper.
  An antiquated water fountain and a battered Coke machine dispensed beverages on hot days.
  She contained a smile and walked over to the food dispensing machine.
  Banks estimate that only 85% of ATM machines will be dispensing cash by the end of January 1.
  To suit varying demands, some machines have facilities to dispense a half-cup for customers who prefer to linger over a tea for a long time.
  Well, I've still never seen any on the Tube myself but on Saturday I saw my first ever umbrella dispensing machine at Windsor Central station.
  Up to 200 of the country's 2,250 ‘hole in the wall’ cash dispensing machines have run out of cash.
  A pharmacist at a remote 24-hour location will pop up on a screen and consult with the patient before a machine dispenses the drugs.
  This machine can only dispense a maximum of £400.00.
  Water and soap were dispensed from a machine incorporating a sink and resembling a coffee dispenser, which also had a hot air dryer.
  The automated teller machine that dispenses cash and other banking transactions has become ubiquitous in many parts of the world.
  There's a coin-operated machine that dispenses holy water, a battery, and a steam engine.
  Newry will be the first town in Northern Ireland to have a bank machine dispensing the new Euro banknotes when the currency comes into circulation in January 2002.
  Synonyms
  prepare, make up, mix
  supply, provide, sell
2. 1.2 (of a chemist) make up and give out (medicine) according to a doctor's prescription.
  （按处方）配（药），发（药）
  he was stopped from dispensing prescriptions
  Example sentencesExamples
  Megan started work in the pharmacy, dispensing medicine and travelling with the mobile medical team as they visited outlying villages.
  Relaxation of rules governing the opening of pharmacies could see supermarkets become a major force in dispensing medicines.
  My primary role is as a pharmacist dispensing prescriptions and selling medicines with advice and counselling but I am the manager of the staff that work here and do everything that's involved in running a business.
  When the pharmacist dispenses your medicine, you have another opportunity to clarify information or to ask other questions.
  There are also a large number of mobile dispensaries and clinics where doctors are busy dispensing medicines to pilgrims.
  It has been alleged though that the decision to restrict private nurses from dispensing medicine came from private doctors who thought that many patients are flocking to the private clinics.
  Saudi chemists dispense medicine only in packets.
  There is still the image that chemists simply dispense medicine after a visit to the doctor.
  But there are also huge savings available from legitimate Canadian pharmacies dispensing quality medicines.
  Often the doctor (almost always a man) would dispense the necessary medicine himself!
  These all depended on hand cutting and rolling of the pills, usually done by the druggist who dispensed the medicine.
  This is different from our traditional role of training students to dispense medicines.
  Doctors without licences would have to stop dispensing medicine from today, or run foul of the law.
  Such medicines may only be dispensed under a prescription, made usually only by a medical practitioner or dentist.
  Electronic prescribing is common in America, with some internet chemists dispensing thousands of medicines an hour.
  The figures exclude prescriptions that were dispensed by hospital pharmacies and medicines purchased over the counter.
  An angry pharmacist says Government moves to allow supermarket chains to provide dispensing services may destroy the community.
  Already, four states allow doctors to give pharmacists standing prescriptions to dispense the pills.
  The Act also prevents doctors from dispensing medicines without a new, costly and scarce licence which is supposed to be restricted to those who are more than five kilometres from a pharmacy.
  Will it be considered a pharmaceutical product that requires a prescription and will be dispensed by a pharmacy or will it be available directly to physicians via the laboratory?
2dispense withno object Manage without or get rid of.
没有也行；去掉
let's dispense with the formalities, shall we?
我们不要拘泥于形式，好吗？
Example sentencesExamples
- In some places they're dispensing with the sledges altogether these days and are sliding downhill sitting on plastic bags.
- At his best, Reynolds manages simultaneously to acclaim and to dispense with the trappings of fame.
- By dispensing with any requirement of knowledge of the contents of the book on the part of the seller, the ordinance tends to impose a severe limitation on the public's access to constitutionally protected matter.
- It was decided that the best way forward was through the separation of religious belief from political power, dispensing with the age old over-reliance on tradition, the past and religious orthodoxy.
- By dispensing with these often-meaningless boundaries and thinking these ostensibly different things together, the choice is not either/or but the more meaningful both/and.
- When Alf came to manage England, he dispensed with the winger altogether and built his wingless wonders.
- This communication preserves the structure of the courses whilst dispensing with the pressure of deadlines, or pre-set scheduling procedures.
- Turnpikes put lengthy stretches of road under unified management, thereby dispensing with the need for coordination among a multiplicity of local governments to improve roads.
- Public sector general insurance companies are quietly dispensing with compassionate appointments in a bid to rationalise manpower utilisation.
- So too is dispensing with managers that are no longer achieving results.
- It had also cut costs by dispensing with its management board and centralising some technology functions.
- Graham has a rather unique approach to transport management - mainly by dispensing with the transport element, and then also getting rid of the management angle as well.
- I have no problems with men who have poured millions of pounds into football clubs deciding to dispense with the manager on a whim.
- I am now recovering well and have managed to dispense with my crutches.
- For fans, the big clear-out is always an emotional attic - much-loved souvenirs and total junk are dispensed with simultaneously.
- Index funds dispense with a manager and simply follow a stock index, such as the Standard & Poor's 500.
- The first-time penalty should be the cutting off of the water supply, the second, dispensing with electricity.
- A vast array of beers including an ever-changing guest beer seem to qualify it as a serious pub, dispensing with its duty to offer any kind of lager or bitter you could desire in sober fashion.
- The General Medical Council has also been informed, and hospital managers have revealed that they have dispensed with the services of the locum registrar on duty during the delivery.
- This is taken as dispensing with the ‘management’ of the cultural agenda of copyright.
Synonyms
waive, omit, drop, leave out, forgo, give up, relinquish, renounce
ignore, disregard, pass over, brush aside
do away with, put a stop to, put an end to
informal cut out, give something a miss, knock something on the head
get rid of, throw away, throw out, cast aside, do away with, dispose of, discard, shed
manage without, do without, cope without
informal ditch, scrap, axe, junk, dump, chuck out, chuck away, get shut of
British informal get shot of
North American informal trash
1. 2.1 Give special exemption from (a law or rule)
  给予特许；豁免
  the Secretary of State was empowered to dispense with the nationality requirement in individual cases
  国务卿有权在个别情况下豁免国别要求。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If wrong about that, Mr Bowen submits that if the claim form must be treated as served on 7 November, an order should be made under CPR Rule 6.9 dispensing with service of the claim form completely.
  We will dispense with the rule relating to time for bringing the application but refuse special leave.
  Ord 52, rule 4, allows the court to dispense with service of the notice of motion if it thinks it just so to do.
  And rules can be dispensed with in the Court's inherent power if the interests of justice require.
  In our view it is not a case where the Court should make an order dispensing with compliance with Order 69A rule 3.
2. 2.2with object Grant (someone) an exemption from a religious obligation.
  豁免（某人）的宗教义务
  the Pope personally nominated him as bishop, dispensing him from his impediment
  教皇亲自任命他为主教，为他扫除了障碍。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Diocesan bishops can dispense men from the obligations that go with the diaconate and suspend priests from the exercise of their order for a long or short period, but only the bishop of Rome can expel them from the priesthood.
  The designated cardinal however can petition the pope to dispense him from this requirement.
  Leo X gave as the reason for dispensing him from some of the requirements of canon law the expectation that as a native bishop he would be more effective in promoting the faith among his people.
  Synonyms
  exempt, excuse, except, release, relieve, reprieve, absolve
  grant someone a dispensation, grant someone an exemption
  informal let off

Phrases

dispense with someone's services

Dismiss someone from a job.
解雇某人
the club have no option but to dispense with his services
Example sentencesExamples
- But if she isn't, her once supportive German bosses will not waste any time in dispensing with her services.
- If I don't see it through, it will be because they have dispensed with my services.
- He would make certain that, in future, any group or artist he managed never had the power to dispense with his services.
- I put it to him that if someone else were head coach he, as chief executive, would surely consider whether to dispense with their services.
- Eames was sacked late on Wednesday night after a disciplinary hearing found him guilty of gross misconduct, concluding he deliberately misled three employees when dispensing with their services.
- If he did, I would have dispensed with his services and gone it alone and won.
- When Kenneth Williams, 58, returned to his Horsforth home from holiday last summer to find a letter from his employer dispensing with his services, he thought his working life was over.
- After he has begun my father can dispense with my services and the routine becomes a monologue which moves on its own.
- He never dispensed with her services, or those of his solicitor.
- What we do know is that no publisher made an offer and Mark, frustrated with Harris's failure, dispensed with his services.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin dispensare 'continue to weigh out or disburse', from the verb dispendere, based on pendere 'weigh'.

Rhymes

cense, commence, common sense, condense, dense, expense, fence, hence, Hortense, immense, offence (US offense), pence, prepense, pretence (US pretense), sense, spence, suspense, tense, thence, whence

Definition of dispense in US English:

dispense

verbdəˈspensdəˈspɛns

1with object Distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people.
分发；提供（服务，信息）
he dispensed a gentle pat on Claude's back
Example sentencesExamples
- There is no central nursing station for gathering or dispensing information.
- Urban police departments, which tended to be highly politicized and run by party bosses, were also frequently tools for dispensing social services and other forms of political patronage.
- It also dispensed pastoral care to the white settlers.
- A mine of information, Johnston also dispenses the type of wisdom not necessarily included in the book.
- University programs reported increased interest from potential candidates, providing an opportunity to dispense program information widely.
- We look to the media to dispense information to help us make our choices.
- As we walk past snake after snake, Myers dispenses facts.
- Mrs Canas said there was no one organisation to take responsibility for dispensing information and professionals assumed people already knew things.
- And the doctor must be familiar with the issues that are important to young people and know how to draw out information and dispense advice without sounding preachy.
- So all you guys out there listen up, I am going to dispense this information to you all, free of charge.
- Being educated to study the human body and being able to dispense care and get paid for it is a privilege, and the best doctors realize this.
- As they dispensed care and advice to them, they realized a much larger audience could benefit from their advice if they put it in writing.
- Yet, she dispenses advice about marriage and childraising with no second thoughts.
- The 5 p.m. embargo gives the Pentagon plenty of time to dispense the information to Capitol Hill and other agencies.
- Another thing, the purpose of this column is not to dispense medical information.
- The gravel-voiced bar-owner Phil dispenses drink and advice in about equal measure and is like a father figure to her.
- So they use the public sector not to provide services but to dispense patronage; they use trade protection to distribute favours.
- Partly, I suspect, this is because many health campaigners dispense factual information devoid of social context.
- One of the biggest problems during that disaster was getting and dispensing accurate information, especially in Topanga's isolated canyon enclaves.
- It's their job to dispense information effectively and accurately.
Synonyms
distribute, pass round, pass out, hand out, deal out, dole out, share out, divide out, parcel out, allocate, allot, apportion, assign, bestow, confer, supply, disburse
1. 1.1 (of a machine) supply (a product or cash)
  （机器）提供（产品或现金）
  the machines dispense a range of drinks and snacks
  这些机器发售各种各样的饮料和小吃。
  Example sentencesExamples
  To suit varying demands, some machines have facilities to dispense a half-cup for customers who prefer to linger over a tea for a long time.
  Customers buy credit on a smartcard, which they swipe when they want to try a wine, and the machine dispenses it.
  She contained a smile and walked over to the food dispensing machine.
  Ask about the availability of cash dispensing machines in the area you are visiting.
  A pharmacist at a remote 24-hour location will pop up on a screen and consult with the patient before a machine dispenses the drugs.
  After my money was dispensed from the machine, I grabbed the receipt and started walking off, when I noticed that the ATM had spat out a second piece of paper.
  He suggested a ticket dispensing machine at the car park.
  Water and soap were dispensed from a machine incorporating a sink and resembling a coffee dispenser, which also had a hot air dryer.
  Based on iris recognition technology, the machines will dispense cash, cinema tickets and postage stamps, and the company intends offering further applications including on-line shopping and bill payment.
  The screen of the cash dispenser displays the ironic message, ‘We apologise for the inconvenience, but this machine does not dispense cash at the moment.’
  The automated teller machine that dispenses cash and other banking transactions has become ubiquitous in many parts of the world.
  Well, I've still never seen any on the Tube myself but on Saturday I saw my first ever umbrella dispensing machine at Windsor Central station.
  An antiquated water fountain and a battered Coke machine dispensed beverages on hot days.
  Up to 200 of the country's 2,250 ‘hole in the wall’ cash dispensing machines have run out of cash.
  They enquired where was the machine that dispensed the parking discs.
  There's a coin-operated machine that dispenses holy water, a battery, and a steam engine.
  Banks estimate that only 85% of ATM machines will be dispensing cash by the end of January 1.
  Look for ATM-like machines dispensing DVDs to pop up across the U.S. this year.
  Newry will be the first town in Northern Ireland to have a bank machine dispensing the new Euro banknotes when the currency comes into circulation in January 2002.
  This machine can only dispense a maximum of £400.00.
  Synonyms
  prepare, make up, mix
2. 1.2 (of a pharmacist) make up and give out (medicine) according to a doctor's prescription.
  （按处方）配（药），发（药）
  Example sentencesExamples
  My primary role is as a pharmacist dispensing prescriptions and selling medicines with advice and counselling but I am the manager of the staff that work here and do everything that's involved in running a business.
  Saudi chemists dispense medicine only in packets.
  Such medicines may only be dispensed under a prescription, made usually only by a medical practitioner or dentist.
  An angry pharmacist says Government moves to allow supermarket chains to provide dispensing services may destroy the community.
  This is different from our traditional role of training students to dispense medicines.
  There are also a large number of mobile dispensaries and clinics where doctors are busy dispensing medicines to pilgrims.
  When the pharmacist dispenses your medicine, you have another opportunity to clarify information or to ask other questions.
  There is still the image that chemists simply dispense medicine after a visit to the doctor.
  Already, four states allow doctors to give pharmacists standing prescriptions to dispense the pills.
  Relaxation of rules governing the opening of pharmacies could see supermarkets become a major force in dispensing medicines.
  Will it be considered a pharmaceutical product that requires a prescription and will be dispensed by a pharmacy or will it be available directly to physicians via the laboratory?
  Doctors without licences would have to stop dispensing medicine from today, or run foul of the law.
  The Act also prevents doctors from dispensing medicines without a new, costly and scarce licence which is supposed to be restricted to those who are more than five kilometres from a pharmacy.
  Megan started work in the pharmacy, dispensing medicine and travelling with the mobile medical team as they visited outlying villages.
  Often the doctor (almost always a man) would dispense the necessary medicine himself!
  It has been alleged though that the decision to restrict private nurses from dispensing medicine came from private doctors who thought that many patients are flocking to the private clinics.
  Electronic prescribing is common in America, with some internet chemists dispensing thousands of medicines an hour.
  The figures exclude prescriptions that were dispensed by hospital pharmacies and medicines purchased over the counter.
  But there are also huge savings available from legitimate Canadian pharmacies dispensing quality medicines.
  These all depended on hand cutting and rolling of the pills, usually done by the druggist who dispensed the medicine.
2dispense withno object Manage without or get rid of.
没有也行；去掉
let's dispense with the formalities, shall we?
我们不要拘泥于形式，好吗？
Example sentencesExamples
- By dispensing with any requirement of knowledge of the contents of the book on the part of the seller, the ordinance tends to impose a severe limitation on the public's access to constitutionally protected matter.
- The General Medical Council has also been informed, and hospital managers have revealed that they have dispensed with the services of the locum registrar on duty during the delivery.
- When Alf came to manage England, he dispensed with the winger altogether and built his wingless wonders.
- Turnpikes put lengthy stretches of road under unified management, thereby dispensing with the need for coordination among a multiplicity of local governments to improve roads.
- This communication preserves the structure of the courses whilst dispensing with the pressure of deadlines, or pre-set scheduling procedures.
- A vast array of beers including an ever-changing guest beer seem to qualify it as a serious pub, dispensing with its duty to offer any kind of lager or bitter you could desire in sober fashion.
- This is taken as dispensing with the ‘management’ of the cultural agenda of copyright.
- It was decided that the best way forward was through the separation of religious belief from political power, dispensing with the age old over-reliance on tradition, the past and religious orthodoxy.
- Public sector general insurance companies are quietly dispensing with compassionate appointments in a bid to rationalise manpower utilisation.
- I am now recovering well and have managed to dispense with my crutches.
- For fans, the big clear-out is always an emotional attic - much-loved souvenirs and total junk are dispensed with simultaneously.
- At his best, Reynolds manages simultaneously to acclaim and to dispense with the trappings of fame.
- By dispensing with these often-meaningless boundaries and thinking these ostensibly different things together, the choice is not either/or but the more meaningful both/and.
- The first-time penalty should be the cutting off of the water supply, the second, dispensing with electricity.
- I have no problems with men who have poured millions of pounds into football clubs deciding to dispense with the manager on a whim.
- Graham has a rather unique approach to transport management - mainly by dispensing with the transport element, and then also getting rid of the management angle as well.
- So too is dispensing with managers that are no longer achieving results.
- In some places they're dispensing with the sledges altogether these days and are sliding downhill sitting on plastic bags.
- It had also cut costs by dispensing with its management board and centralising some technology functions.
- Index funds dispense with a manager and simply follow a stock index, such as the Standard & Poor's 500.
Synonyms
waive, omit, drop, leave out, forgo, give up, relinquish, renounce
get rid of, throw away, throw out, cast aside, do away with, dispose of, discard, shed
1. 2.1 Give special exemption from (a law or rule)
  给予特许；豁免
  the Secretary of State was empowered to dispense with the nationality requirement in individual cases
  国务卿有权在个别情况下豁免国别要求。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If wrong about that, Mr Bowen submits that if the claim form must be treated as served on 7 November, an order should be made under CPR Rule 6.9 dispensing with service of the claim form completely.
  And rules can be dispensed with in the Court's inherent power if the interests of justice require.
  Ord 52, rule 4, allows the court to dispense with service of the notice of motion if it thinks it just so to do.
  In our view it is not a case where the Court should make an order dispensing with compliance with Order 69A rule 3.
  We will dispense with the rule relating to time for bringing the application but refuse special leave.
2. 2.2with object Grant (someone) an exemption from a religious obligation.
  豁免（某人）的宗教义务
  the Pope personally nominated him as bishop, dispensing him from his impediment
  教皇亲自任命他为主教，为他扫除了障碍。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Diocesan bishops can dispense men from the obligations that go with the diaconate and suspend priests from the exercise of their order for a long or short period, but only the bishop of Rome can expel them from the priesthood.
  The designated cardinal however can petition the pope to dispense him from this requirement.
  Leo X gave as the reason for dispensing him from some of the requirements of canon law the expectation that as a native bishop he would be more effective in promoting the faith among his people.
  Synonyms
  exempt, excuse, except, release, relieve, reprieve, absolve

Phrases

dispense with someone's services

Dismiss someone from a job.
解雇某人
Example sentencesExamples
- When Kenneth Williams, 58, returned to his Horsforth home from holiday last summer to find a letter from his employer dispensing with his services, he thought his working life was over.
- He would make certain that, in future, any group or artist he managed never had the power to dispense with his services.
- Eames was sacked late on Wednesday night after a disciplinary hearing found him guilty of gross misconduct, concluding he deliberately misled three employees when dispensing with their services.
- I put it to him that if someone else were head coach he, as chief executive, would surely consider whether to dispense with their services.
- If he did, I would have dispensed with his services and gone it alone and won.
- He never dispensed with her services, or those of his solicitor.
- What we do know is that no publisher made an offer and Mark, frustrated with Harris's failure, dispensed with his services.
- After he has begun my father can dispense with my services and the routine becomes a monologue which moves on its own.
- But if she isn't, her once supportive German bosses will not waste any time in dispensing with her services.
- If I don't see it through, it will be because they have dispensed with my services.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin dispensare ‘continue to weigh out or disburse’, from the verb dispendere, based on pendere ‘weigh’.

词汇	dispense
释义	Definition of dispense in English: dispense verb dɪˈspɛnsdəˈspɛns 1with object Distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people. 分发；提供（服务，信息） orderlies went round dispensing drinks 勤务兵四处分发饮料。 Example sentencesExamples Urban police departments, which tended to be highly politicized and run by party bosses, were also frequently tools for dispensing social services and other forms of political patronage. As they dispensed care and advice to them, they realized a much larger audience could benefit from their advice if they put it in writing. As we walk past snake after snake, Myers dispenses facts. And the doctor must be familiar with the issues that are important to young people and know how to draw out information and dispense advice without sounding preachy. Being educated to study the human body and being able to dispense care and get paid for it is a privilege, and the best doctors realize this. So all you guys out there listen up, I am going to dispense this information to you all, free of charge. University programs reported increased interest from potential candidates, providing an opportunity to dispense program information widely. A mine of information, Johnston also dispenses the type of wisdom not necessarily included in the book. It also dispensed pastoral care to the white settlers. Another thing, the purpose of this column is not to dispense medical information. So they use the public sector not to provide services but to dispense patronage; they use trade protection to distribute favours. One of the biggest problems during that disaster was getting and dispensing accurate information, especially in Topanga's isolated canyon enclaves. Yet, she dispenses advice about marriage and childraising with no second thoughts. The 5 p.m. embargo gives the Pentagon plenty of time to dispense the information to Capitol Hill and other agencies. The gravel-voiced bar-owner Phil dispenses drink and advice in about equal measure and is like a father figure to her. Mrs Canas said there was no one organisation to take responsibility for dispensing information and professionals assumed people already knew things. It's their job to dispense information effectively and accurately. Partly, I suspect, this is because many health campaigners dispense factual information devoid of social context. There is no central nursing station for gathering or dispensing information. We look to the media to dispense information to help us make our choices. Synonyms distribute, pass round, pass out, hand out, deal out, dole out, share out, divide out, parcel out, allocate, allot, apportion, assign, bestow, confer, supply, disburse informal dish out 1.1 (of a machine or container) supply or release (a product or cash) （机器）提供（产品或现金） the machines dispense a range of drinks 这些机器发售各种各样的饮料和小吃。 Example sentencesExamples Customers buy credit on a smartcard, which they swipe when they want to try a wine, and the machine dispenses it. He suggested a ticket dispensing machine at the car park. The screen of the cash dispenser displays the ironic message, ‘We apologise for the inconvenience, but this machine does not dispense cash at the moment.’ Ask about the availability of cash dispensing machines in the area you are visiting. Based on iris recognition technology, the machines will dispense cash, cinema tickets and postage stamps, and the company intends offering further applications including on-line shopping and bill payment. Look for ATM-like machines dispensing DVDs to pop up across the U.S. this year. They enquired where was the machine that dispensed the parking discs. After my money was dispensed from the machine, I grabbed the receipt and started walking off, when I noticed that the ATM had spat out a second piece of paper. An antiquated water fountain and a battered Coke machine dispensed beverages on hot days. She contained a smile and walked over to the food dispensing machine. Banks estimate that only 85% of ATM machines will be dispensing cash by the end of January 1. To suit varying demands, some machines have facilities to dispense a half-cup for customers who prefer to linger over a tea for a long time. Well, I've still never seen any on the Tube myself but on Saturday I saw my first ever umbrella dispensing machine at Windsor Central station. Up to 200 of the country's 2,250 ‘hole in the wall’ cash dispensing machines have run out of cash. A pharmacist at a remote 24-hour location will pop up on a screen and consult with the patient before a machine dispenses the drugs. This machine can only dispense a maximum of £400.00. Water and soap were dispensed from a machine incorporating a sink and resembling a coffee dispenser, which also had a hot air dryer. The automated teller machine that dispenses cash and other banking transactions has become ubiquitous in many parts of the world. There's a coin-operated machine that dispenses holy water, a battery, and a steam engine. Newry will be the first town in Northern Ireland to have a bank machine dispensing the new Euro banknotes when the currency comes into circulation in January 2002. Synonyms prepare, make up, mix supply, provide, sell 1.2 (of a chemist) make up and give out (medicine) according to a doctor's prescription. （按处方）配（药），发（药） he was stopped from dispensing prescriptions Example sentencesExamples Megan started work in the pharmacy, dispensing medicine and travelling with the mobile medical team as they visited outlying villages. Relaxation of rules governing the opening of pharmacies could see supermarkets become a major force in dispensing medicines. My primary role is as a pharmacist dispensing prescriptions and selling medicines with advice and counselling but I am the manager of the staff that work here and do everything that's involved in running a business. When the pharmacist dispenses your medicine, you have another opportunity to clarify information or to ask other questions. There are also a large number of mobile dispensaries and clinics where doctors are busy dispensing medicines to pilgrims. It has been alleged though that the decision to restrict private nurses from dispensing medicine came from private doctors who thought that many patients are flocking to the private clinics. Saudi chemists dispense medicine only in packets. There is still the image that chemists simply dispense medicine after a visit to the doctor. But there are also huge savings available from legitimate Canadian pharmacies dispensing quality medicines. Often the doctor (almost always a man) would dispense the necessary medicine himself! These all depended on hand cutting and rolling of the pills, usually done by the druggist who dispensed the medicine. This is different from our traditional role of training students to dispense medicines. Doctors without licences would have to stop dispensing medicine from today, or run foul of the law. Such medicines may only be dispensed under a prescription, made usually only by a medical practitioner or dentist. Electronic prescribing is common in America, with some internet chemists dispensing thousands of medicines an hour. The figures exclude prescriptions that were dispensed by hospital pharmacies and medicines purchased over the counter. An angry pharmacist says Government moves to allow supermarket chains to provide dispensing services may destroy the community. Already, four states allow doctors to give pharmacists standing prescriptions to dispense the pills. The Act also prevents doctors from dispensing medicines without a new, costly and scarce licence which is supposed to be restricted to those who are more than five kilometres from a pharmacy. Will it be considered a pharmaceutical product that requires a prescription and will be dispensed by a pharmacy or will it be available directly to physicians via the laboratory? 2dispense withno object Manage without or get rid of. 没有也行；去掉 let's dispense with the formalities, shall we? 我们不要拘泥于形式，好吗？ Example sentencesExamples In some places they're dispensing with the sledges altogether these days and are sliding downhill sitting on plastic bags. At his best, Reynolds manages simultaneously to acclaim and to dispense with the trappings of fame. By dispensing with any requirement of knowledge of the contents of the book on the part of the seller, the ordinance tends to impose a severe limitation on the public's access to constitutionally protected matter. It was decided that the best way forward was through the separation of religious belief from political power, dispensing with the age old over-reliance on tradition, the past and religious orthodoxy. By dispensing with these often-meaningless boundaries and thinking these ostensibly different things together, the choice is not either/or but the more meaningful both/and. When Alf came to manage England, he dispensed with the winger altogether and built his wingless wonders. This communication preserves the structure of the courses whilst dispensing with the pressure of deadlines, or pre-set scheduling procedures. Turnpikes put lengthy stretches of road under unified management, thereby dispensing with the need for coordination among a multiplicity of local governments to improve roads. Public sector general insurance companies are quietly dispensing with compassionate appointments in a bid to rationalise manpower utilisation. So too is dispensing with managers that are no longer achieving results. It had also cut costs by dispensing with its management board and centralising some technology functions. Graham has a rather unique approach to transport management - mainly by dispensing with the transport element, and then also getting rid of the management angle as well. I have no problems with men who have poured millions of pounds into football clubs deciding to dispense with the manager on a whim. I am now recovering well and have managed to dispense with my crutches. For fans, the big clear-out is always an emotional attic - much-loved souvenirs and total junk are dispensed with simultaneously. Index funds dispense with a manager and simply follow a stock index, such as the Standard & Poor's 500. The first-time penalty should be the cutting off of the water supply, the second, dispensing with electricity. A vast array of beers including an ever-changing guest beer seem to qualify it as a serious pub, dispensing with its duty to offer any kind of lager or bitter you could desire in sober fashion. The General Medical Council has also been informed, and hospital managers have revealed that they have dispensed with the services of the locum registrar on duty during the delivery. This is taken as dispensing with the ‘management’ of the cultural agenda of copyright. Synonyms waive, omit, drop, leave out, forgo, give up, relinquish, renounce ignore, disregard, pass over, brush aside do away with, put a stop to, put an end to informal cut out, give something a miss, knock something on the head get rid of, throw away, throw out, cast aside, do away with, dispose of, discard, shed manage without, do without, cope without informal ditch, scrap, axe, junk, dump, chuck out, chuck away, get shut of British informal get shot of North American informal trash 2.1 Give special exemption from (a law or rule) 给予特许；豁免 the Secretary of State was empowered to dispense with the nationality requirement in individual cases 国务卿有权在个别情况下豁免国别要求。 Example sentencesExamples If wrong about that, Mr Bowen submits that if the claim form must be treated as served on 7 November, an order should be made under CPR Rule 6.9 dispensing with service of the claim form completely. We will dispense with the rule relating to time for bringing the application but refuse special leave. Ord 52, rule 4, allows the court to dispense with service of the notice of motion if it thinks it just so to do. And rules can be dispensed with in the Court's inherent power if the interests of justice require. In our view it is not a case where the Court should make an order dispensing with compliance with Order 69A rule 3. 2.2with object Grant (someone) an exemption from a religious obligation. 豁免（某人）的宗教义务 the Pope personally nominated him as bishop, dispensing him from his impediment 教皇亲自任命他为主教，为他扫除了障碍。 Example sentencesExamples Diocesan bishops can dispense men from the obligations that go with the diaconate and suspend priests from the exercise of their order for a long or short period, but only the bishop of Rome can expel them from the priesthood. The designated cardinal however can petition the pope to dispense him from this requirement. Leo X gave as the reason for dispensing him from some of the requirements of canon law the expectation that as a native bishop he would be more effective in promoting the faith among his people. Synonyms exempt, excuse, except, release, relieve, reprieve, absolve grant someone a dispensation, grant someone an exemption informal let off Phrases dispense with someone's services Dismiss someone from a job. 解雇某人 the club have no option but to dispense with his services Example sentencesExamples But if she isn't, her once supportive German bosses will not waste any time in dispensing with her services. If I don't see it through, it will be because they have dispensed with my services. He would make certain that, in future, any group or artist he managed never had the power to dispense with his services. I put it to him that if someone else were head coach he, as chief executive, would surely consider whether to dispense with their services. Eames was sacked late on Wednesday night after a disciplinary hearing found him guilty of gross misconduct, concluding he deliberately misled three employees when dispensing with their services. If he did, I would have dispensed with his services and gone it alone and won. When Kenneth Williams, 58, returned to his Horsforth home from holiday last summer to find a letter from his employer dispensing with his services, he thought his working life was over. After he has begun my father can dispense with my services and the routine becomes a monologue which moves on its own. He never dispensed with her services, or those of his solicitor. What we do know is that no publisher made an offer and Mark, frustrated with Harris's failure, dispensed with his services. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin dispensare 'continue to weigh out or disburse', from the verb dispendere, based on pendere 'weigh'. Rhymes cense, commence, common sense, condense, dense, expense, fence, hence, Hortense, immense, offence (US offense), pence, prepense, pretence (US pretense), sense, spence, suspense, tense, thence, whence verb.1 phr. Definition of dispense in US English: dispense verbdəˈspensdəˈspɛns 1with object Distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people. 分发；提供（服务，信息） he dispensed a gentle pat on Claude's back Example sentencesExamples There is no central nursing station for gathering or dispensing information. Urban police departments, which tended to be highly politicized and run by party bosses, were also frequently tools for dispensing social services and other forms of political patronage. It also dispensed pastoral care to the white settlers. A mine of information, Johnston also dispenses the type of wisdom not necessarily included in the book. University programs reported increased interest from potential candidates, providing an opportunity to dispense program information widely. We look to the media to dispense information to help us make our choices. As we walk past snake after snake, Myers dispenses facts. Mrs Canas said there was no one organisation to take responsibility for dispensing information and professionals assumed people already knew things. And the doctor must be familiar with the issues that are important to young people and know how to draw out information and dispense advice without sounding preachy. So all you guys out there listen up, I am going to dispense this information to you all, free of charge. Being educated to study the human body and being able to dispense care and get paid for it is a privilege, and the best doctors realize this. As they dispensed care and advice to them, they realized a much larger audience could benefit from their advice if they put it in writing. Yet, she dispenses advice about marriage and childraising with no second thoughts. The 5 p.m. embargo gives the Pentagon plenty of time to dispense the information to Capitol Hill and other agencies. Another thing, the purpose of this column is not to dispense medical information. The gravel-voiced bar-owner Phil dispenses drink and advice in about equal measure and is like a father figure to her. So they use the public sector not to provide services but to dispense patronage; they use trade protection to distribute favours. Partly, I suspect, this is because many health campaigners dispense factual information devoid of social context. One of the biggest problems during that disaster was getting and dispensing accurate information, especially in Topanga's isolated canyon enclaves. It's their job to dispense information effectively and accurately. Synonyms distribute, pass round, pass out, hand out, deal out, dole out, share out, divide out, parcel out, allocate, allot, apportion, assign, bestow, confer, supply, disburse 1.1 (of a machine) supply (a product or cash) （机器）提供（产品或现金） the machines dispense a range of drinks and snacks 这些机器发售各种各样的饮料和小吃。 Example sentencesExamples To suit varying demands, some machines have facilities to dispense a half-cup for customers who prefer to linger over a tea for a long time. Customers buy credit on a smartcard, which they swipe when they want to try a wine, and the machine dispenses it. She contained a smile and walked over to the food dispensing machine. Ask about the availability of cash dispensing machines in the area you are visiting. A pharmacist at a remote 24-hour location will pop up on a screen and consult with the patient before a machine dispenses the drugs. After my money was dispensed from the machine, I grabbed the receipt and started walking off, when I noticed that the ATM had spat out a second piece of paper. He suggested a ticket dispensing machine at the car park. Water and soap were dispensed from a machine incorporating a sink and resembling a coffee dispenser, which also had a hot air dryer. Based on iris recognition technology, the machines will dispense cash, cinema tickets and postage stamps, and the company intends offering further applications including on-line shopping and bill payment. The screen of the cash dispenser displays the ironic message, ‘We apologise for the inconvenience, but this machine does not dispense cash at the moment.’ The automated teller machine that dispenses cash and other banking transactions has become ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Well, I've still never seen any on the Tube myself but on Saturday I saw my first ever umbrella dispensing machine at Windsor Central station. An antiquated water fountain and a battered Coke machine dispensed beverages on hot days. Up to 200 of the country's 2,250 ‘hole in the wall’ cash dispensing machines have run out of cash. They enquired where was the machine that dispensed the parking discs. There's a coin-operated machine that dispenses holy water, a battery, and a steam engine. Banks estimate that only 85% of ATM machines will be dispensing cash by the end of January 1. Look for ATM-like machines dispensing DVDs to pop up across the U.S. this year. Newry will be the first town in Northern Ireland to have a bank machine dispensing the new Euro banknotes when the currency comes into circulation in January 2002. This machine can only dispense a maximum of £400.00. Synonyms prepare, make up, mix 1.2 (of a pharmacist) make up and give out (medicine) according to a doctor's prescription. （按处方）配（药），发（药） Example sentencesExamples My primary role is as a pharmacist dispensing prescriptions and selling medicines with advice and counselling but I am the manager of the staff that work here and do everything that's involved in running a business. Saudi chemists dispense medicine only in packets. Such medicines may only be dispensed under a prescription, made usually only by a medical practitioner or dentist. An angry pharmacist says Government moves to allow supermarket chains to provide dispensing services may destroy the community. This is different from our traditional role of training students to dispense medicines. There are also a large number of mobile dispensaries and clinics where doctors are busy dispensing medicines to pilgrims. When the pharmacist dispenses your medicine, you have another opportunity to clarify information or to ask other questions. There is still the image that chemists simply dispense medicine after a visit to the doctor. Already, four states allow doctors to give pharmacists standing prescriptions to dispense the pills. Relaxation of rules governing the opening of pharmacies could see supermarkets become a major force in dispensing medicines. Will it be considered a pharmaceutical product that requires a prescription and will be dispensed by a pharmacy or will it be available directly to physicians via the laboratory? Doctors without licences would have to stop dispensing medicine from today, or run foul of the law. The Act also prevents doctors from dispensing medicines without a new, costly and scarce licence which is supposed to be restricted to those who are more than five kilometres from a pharmacy. Megan started work in the pharmacy, dispensing medicine and travelling with the mobile medical team as they visited outlying villages. Often the doctor (almost always a man) would dispense the necessary medicine himself! It has been alleged though that the decision to restrict private nurses from dispensing medicine came from private doctors who thought that many patients are flocking to the private clinics. Electronic prescribing is common in America, with some internet chemists dispensing thousands of medicines an hour. The figures exclude prescriptions that were dispensed by hospital pharmacies and medicines purchased over the counter. But there are also huge savings available from legitimate Canadian pharmacies dispensing quality medicines. These all depended on hand cutting and rolling of the pills, usually done by the druggist who dispensed the medicine. 2dispense withno object Manage without or get rid of. 没有也行；去掉 let's dispense with the formalities, shall we? 我们不要拘泥于形式，好吗？ Example sentencesExamples By dispensing with any requirement of knowledge of the contents of the book on the part of the seller, the ordinance tends to impose a severe limitation on the public's access to constitutionally protected matter. The General Medical Council has also been informed, and hospital managers have revealed that they have dispensed with the services of the locum registrar on duty during the delivery. When Alf came to manage England, he dispensed with the winger altogether and built his wingless wonders. Turnpikes put lengthy stretches of road under unified management, thereby dispensing with the need for coordination among a multiplicity of local governments to improve roads. This communication preserves the structure of the courses whilst dispensing with the pressure of deadlines, or pre-set scheduling procedures. A vast array of beers including an ever-changing guest beer seem to qualify it as a serious pub, dispensing with its duty to offer any kind of lager or bitter you could desire in sober fashion. This is taken as dispensing with the ‘management’ of the cultural agenda of copyright. It was decided that the best way forward was through the separation of religious belief from political power, dispensing with the age old over-reliance on tradition, the past and religious orthodoxy. Public sector general insurance companies are quietly dispensing with compassionate appointments in a bid to rationalise manpower utilisation. I am now recovering well and have managed to dispense with my crutches. For fans, the big clear-out is always an emotional attic - much-loved souvenirs and total junk are dispensed with simultaneously. At his best, Reynolds manages simultaneously to acclaim and to dispense with the trappings of fame. By dispensing with these often-meaningless boundaries and thinking these ostensibly different things together, the choice is not either/or but the more meaningful both/and. The first-time penalty should be the cutting off of the water supply, the second, dispensing with electricity. I have no problems with men who have poured millions of pounds into football clubs deciding to dispense with the manager on a whim. Graham has a rather unique approach to transport management - mainly by dispensing with the transport element, and then also getting rid of the management angle as well. So too is dispensing with managers that are no longer achieving results. In some places they're dispensing with the sledges altogether these days and are sliding downhill sitting on plastic bags. It had also cut costs by dispensing with its management board and centralising some technology functions. Index funds dispense with a manager and simply follow a stock index, such as the Standard & Poor's 500. Synonyms waive, omit, drop, leave out, forgo, give up, relinquish, renounce get rid of, throw away, throw out, cast aside, do away with, dispose of, discard, shed 2.1 Give special exemption from (a law or rule) 给予特许；豁免 the Secretary of State was empowered to dispense with the nationality requirement in individual cases 国务卿有权在个别情况下豁免国别要求。 Example sentencesExamples If wrong about that, Mr Bowen submits that if the claim form must be treated as served on 7 November, an order should be made under CPR Rule 6.9 dispensing with service of the claim form completely. And rules can be dispensed with in the Court's inherent power if the interests of justice require. Ord 52, rule 4, allows the court to dispense with service of the notice of motion if it thinks it just so to do. In our view it is not a case where the Court should make an order dispensing with compliance with Order 69A rule 3. We will dispense with the rule relating to time for bringing the application but refuse special leave. 2.2with object Grant (someone) an exemption from a religious obligation. 豁免（某人）的宗教义务 the Pope personally nominated him as bishop, dispensing him from his impediment 教皇亲自任命他为主教，为他扫除了障碍。 Example sentencesExamples Diocesan bishops can dispense men from the obligations that go with the diaconate and suspend priests from the exercise of their order for a long or short period, but only the bishop of Rome can expel them from the priesthood. The designated cardinal however can petition the pope to dispense him from this requirement. Leo X gave as the reason for dispensing him from some of the requirements of canon law the expectation that as a native bishop he would be more effective in promoting the faith among his people. Synonyms exempt, excuse, except, release, relieve, reprieve, absolve Phrases dispense with someone's services Dismiss someone from a job. 解雇某人 Example sentencesExamples When Kenneth Williams, 58, returned to his Horsforth home from holiday last summer to find a letter from his employer dispensing with his services, he thought his working life was over. He would make certain that, in future, any group or artist he managed never had the power to dispense with his services. Eames was sacked late on Wednesday night after a disciplinary hearing found him guilty of gross misconduct, concluding he deliberately misled three employees when dispensing with their services. I put it to him that if someone else were head coach he, as chief executive, would surely consider whether to dispense with their services. If he did, I would have dispensed with his services and gone it alone and won. He never dispensed with her services, or those of his solicitor. What we do know is that no publisher made an offer and Mark, frustrated with Harris's failure, dispensed with his services. After he has begun my father can dispense with my services and the routine becomes a monologue which moves on its own. But if she isn't, her once supportive German bosses will not waste any time in dispensing with her services. If I don't see it through, it will be because they have dispensed with my services. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin dispensare ‘continue to weigh out or disburse’, from the verb dispendere, based on pendere ‘weigh’. verb.1 phr.
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