dispersal

C2 Topic:People & Society
US /dɪˈspɝːsəl/
noun Freq #36320

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    The act of spreading or scattering things or people over a wide area.

    The dispersal of the crowd took several hours after the match.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · the act of spreading or... diffusiondispersiondissemination
Word family
Forms dispersals
Derived forms codispersaldispersalismdispersalistgeodispersalnondispersaloverdispersalpostdispersalpredispersalredispersal

Etymology

From disperse + -al.

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