Usually means: Allocating or distributing items methodically.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispensing: Merriam-Webster
  2. dispensing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dispensing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dispensing, dispensing: Wordnik
  5. dispensing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dispensing: Wiktionary
  7. Dispensing, dispensing: Dictionary.com
  8. dispensing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Dispensing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dispensing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Dispensing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. dispensing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. dispensing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. dispensing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispensing: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispensing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. dispensing: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dispensing)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is dispensed or served out.

Similar:
dispensation, dispensal, dispensement, disbursement, administration, disbursal, distribution, dispatchment, discharging, dishing, more...

Opposite:
receiving, collecting, gathering, accumulating

Types:
vending machine, cash register, ATM, self-service, self-checkout, more...

Phrases:
dispensing with, dispensing opticians, dispensing optician, dispensing chemist, dispensing chemists, more...

Adjectives:
divine, ophthalmic, accurate, own, physician, automatic, proper, liquid, automated, easy, actual

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Similar:
dispensation, dispensal, dispensement, disbursement, administration, disbursal, distribution, dispatchment, discharging, dishing, more...

Opposite:
receiving, collecting, gathering, accumulating

Types:
vending machine, cash register, ATM, self-service, self-checkout, more...

Phrases:
dispensing with, dispensing opticians, dispensing optician, dispensing chemist, dispensing chemists, dispensing with services, Automated dispensing cabinet, more...

Adjectives:
divine, ophthalmic, accurate, own, physician, automatic, proper, liquid, automated, easy, actual

Colors:
    blue,     green,     white,     silver,     gray, more...



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