disbursement
(dɪsˈbɜːsmənt)
[f. disburse v. + -ment: cf. F. desboursement (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), now déb-.]
1. The action or fact of disbursing.
| 1596 Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 651/1 The Queenes treasure in soe greate occasions of disbursementes..is not allwayes soe..plentifull, as it can spare soe greate a somme togither. 1665 Hooke Microgr. Pref. G b, His chearful Disbursment for the replanting of Ireland. 1756–7 Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 245 Upon any..extraordinary disbursement, the cause of the difference in the account must be carefully entered. 1849 Grote Greece ii. lxii. (1862) V. 421 And that deficit was never so complete as to stop the disbursement of the Diobely. |
2. That which has been disbursed; money paid out; expenditure.
| 1607 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 148 This is the whole disbursement for this yeare 1607. 1818 Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. ix. 294 The surplus of receipts above disbursements. 1847 Grote Greece ii. xxviii. (1862) III. 52 The visitors, whose disbursements went to enrich the inhabitants of Kirrha. |