disbursement

C2+ Topic:Money & Finance

US /dɪsˈbɝsmənt/ UK /dɪsˈbɜːsmənt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
the payment or distribution of money from a fund

The disbursement of the grant will occur in three quarterly installments.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · the payment or distribution... payment expenditure outlay spending distributiondisbursal

Opposites

receipt collection incomereimbursement

Word family

Related forms disbursereimbursebursar

Etymology

From disburse plus -ment; disburse is from Old French desbourser ('to pay out'), from des- (Latin dis-, 'apart') plus bourse ('purse'), from Late Latin bursa ('purse, hide'), from Greek byrsa ('hide, leather').

desbourser Old French bursa la-med býrsa Ancient Greek

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Topics

Money & Finance Word Formation & Derivatives

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# disbursement

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /dɪsˈbɝsmənt/
**IPA (UK):** /dɪsˈbɜːsmənt/

## Meanings
1. the payment or distribution of money from a fund

## Examples
- The disbursement of the grant will occur in three quarterly installments.

## Synonyms
- payment
- expenditure
- outlay
- spending
- distribution
- disbursal

## Antonyms
- receipt
- collection
- income
- reimbursement

## Related Forms
- disburse
- reimburse
- bursar

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: desbourser
- Root: bursa
- Root: býrsa

## Etymology
From disburse plus -ment; disburse is from Old French desbourser ('to pay out'), from des- (Latin dis-, 'apart') plus bourse ('purse'), from Late Latin bursa ('purse, hide'), from Greek byrsa ('hide, leather').

## AI Etymology
Disbursement is from disburse plus -ment; disburse is from Old French desbourser ('to pay out'), from des- (Latin dis-, 'apart') plus bourse ('purse'), from Late Latin bursa ('purse, hide'), from Greek byrsa ('hide, leather'). Important recorded forms include desbourser (Old French), bursa (Latin), and býrsa (Ancient Greek). The current sense covers the payment or distribution of money from a fund. The wider family includes related words such as disburse, reimburse, and bursar.

## Topics
- Money & Finance
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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