Dictionary Definition
disposal
Noun
1 the power to use something or someone; "used
all the resources at his disposal"
2 a method of tending to (especially business)
matters [syn: administration]
3 the act or means of getting rid of something
[syn: disposition]
4 a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage
[syn: electric
pig, garbage
disposal]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊzəl
Noun
- a disposing of or getting rid of something
- the power to use something or someone
Translations
a disposing of
- Finnish: hävittäminen, pois heittäminen
- German: Beseitigung , Entsorgung
- Hebrew: היפטרות (hipat'rut)
- Portuguese: dispensa
the power to use something
- German: Verfügung
- Portuguese: controle
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abalienation, abandonment, abjuration, administration, alienation, allocation, allotment, amortization, amortizement, apportionment, arrangement, array, arraying, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale,
barter, bequeathal, castaway, castoff, cession, chucking, clearance, collation, collocation, command
function, concord,
conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, constitution, conveyance, conveyancing,
decision-making, deeding, deep six, deliverance, delivery, demise, demolishing, demolition, deployment, deportation, destroying, destruction, detachment, disbursal, disbursement, discard, discarding, disjunction, dispensation, dispersion, disposition, distribution, dole, doling, doling out, dumping, ejection, elimination, enfeoffment, eradication, exchange, executive function,
exile, expatriation, expulsion, forgoing, form, formation, formulation, forswearing, getting rid of,
giving, giving out,
giving up, harmony,
issuance, jettison, junking, layout, lease and release,
letting go, lineup,
liquidation,
marshaling, officiation, order, ordering, organization, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, passing around,
paying out, peace,
placement, proportion, purge, quiet, quietude, recantation, refuse, regimentation, regularity, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, release, relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, resignation, retraction, riddance, routine, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, sequence, settlement, settling, setup, severance, structure, structuring, surrender, suspension, swearing off,
symmetry, syntax, system, throwaway, trading, tranquillity, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, uniformity, vesting, withdrawal, yielding