1. Administer or bestow, as in small portions
   "the machine dispenses soft drinks"
   - distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out, mete, dole 
2. Grant a dispensation; grant an exemption
   "I was dispensed from this terrible task" 
3. Give or apply (medications)
   - administer

Derived forms: dispensed, dispensing, dispenses

See also: dispensary, dispensation, dispense with, dispenser

Type of: care for, exempt, free, give, relieve, treat

• non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor
• non-paying
• non-profit-making
• non-slave
• non-standard speech
• non-U
• Non-Ugric
• non-volatile storage
• non-water-soluble
• non-white
• non-zero
• nona-
• nonabsorbency
• nonabsorbent
• nonabsorptive
• nonacceptance
• nonaccomplishment
• nonachievement
• nonachiever
• nonacid
• nonadaptive
• nonaddictive
• nonadhesive
• nonadjacent
• nonadsorbent