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.

(obsolete) Cost, expenditure. / (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.

simple past tense and past participle of dispense

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispense

plural of dispenser

An object used to dispense other items. / A person who makes up prescriptions, such as an optician or pharmacist.

dispensation (handing out or distribution)

plural of dispensement

(transitive) To eliminate or do without.

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution / The distribution of good and evil by God to man. / That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone