Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To pay out; disburse.
  • To pay money; make disbursement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb obsolete To disburse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Obsolete form of disburse.

Etymologies

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de- and Latin bursa, "purse".

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Examples

  • The said further the banks 'only function would be to receive funds from a particular bank or client and to deburse the funds mentioned to another bank abroad for prime bank guarantees issued.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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