dispenser

From Anglo-Norman dispensour, from Old French despenseor, from Latin dispensator

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɛnsə/

dispenser (plural dispensers)

1. Something or someone that dispenses things.
   • 2014 October 30, Ben Brantley, “When the head leads the heart: 'The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, opens on Broadway [print version: When the witty head is far ahead of the heart: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor star in revival of 'Real Thing', International New York Times, 4 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times‎:

     While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.

   1. An object used to dispense other items.

      a toilet-paper dispenser

   2. A person who makes up prescriptions, such as an optician or pharmacist.

Borrowed from Latin dispensō. Compare dépenser.

• IPA^(key): /dis.pɑ̃.se/

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dispenser

1. (transitive) to excuse, exempt (de from)
2. (transitive, literary) to dispense, give out, radiate
3. (transitive) to distribute, dispense
4. (reflexive) to avoid, refrain (de from)

• dispense
• dispensable
• dispensation
• dispensatoire
• dispensaire
• dépenser

• “dispenser” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

dispenser

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dispensō

From English dispenser

dispenser m (definite singular dispenseren, indefinite plural dispensere, definite plural dispenserne)

1. a dispenser (object used to dispense)

• dispensere (verb)

• “dispenser” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dispenser” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English dispenser

dispenser m (definite singular dispenseren, indefinite plural dispenserar, definite plural dispenserane)

1. a dispenser (object used to dispense)

• dispensere (verb)

• “dispenser” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.