disbursementnoun
uk/dɪsˈbɜːs.mənt/us/dɪsˈbɝːs.mənt/[ C ] an amount of money given for a particular purpose
[ U ] the act of paying out money, especially from an amount that has been collected for a particular purpose
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Amounts of money
- ante
- balance
- bank
- blood money
- bounty
- buck
- budget
- capital
- circumstance
- daily bread
- float
- have/get your snout in the trough idiom
- living wage
- money supply
- nut
- payout
- pool
- slush fund
- sub
- trough
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Examples from literature
- Have you figured up the total of the disbursements I told you of?
- It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.
- It was his general principle to vote for any thing that looked to the disbursement of money.
- The State takes a sensible view of the disbursements of the inheritance of a minor.
- The military disbursements have been regularly made and the accounts regularly and promptly rendered for settlement.
- This establishment is upon so vast a scale, that government, which is the proprietor, is always a loser upon balancing the receipts and disbursements of each night.