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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A particular order, distribution, or placement: a pleasing disposal of plants and lawn.
  2. n. A particular method of attending to or settling matters.
  3. n. Transference by gift or sale.
  4. n. The act or process of getting rid of something.
  5. n. An electric device installed below a sink that grinds garbage so it can be flushed away.
  6. n. The liberty or power to dispose of: funds at our disposal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of disposing or placing; a setting or arranging; disposition or arrangement: as, the disposal of the troops in two lines; the disposal of books in a library.
  2. n. A disposing of by bestowal, alienation, riddance, etc.: as, the disposal of money by will; the disposal of a daughter in marriage; the disposal of an estate by sale; the disposal of sewage.
  3. n. Regulation, ordering, or arrangement, by right of power or possession; dispensation.
  4. n. Power or right to dispose of or control: preceded usually by at, sometimes by in or to: as, everything is left at, in, or to his disposal; the results are at or in the disposal of Providence.
  5. n. Synonyms and
  6. n. Disposition, distribution.
  7. n. 3 and Control, ordering, direction.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An arrangement, categorization or classification of things
  2. n. a disposing of or getting rid of something
  3. n. the power to use something or someone

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order.
  2. n. Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.
  3. n. Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting.
  4. n. Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the power to use something or someone
  2. n. a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
  3. n. a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage
  4. n. the act or means of getting rid of something

Examples

  • “Besides the material at my disposal is all too sparse and mundane, I possess a few details about my characters and those details are not very revealing; details that stem from me only to return to me; the craft of carpentery. ”

    47 entries from February 2008

  • “All you have at your disposal is your ingenuity, and one of those [...]”

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Possibilities offered by satellite navigation

  • “All you have at your disposal is your ingenuity, and one of those next-generation mobile phones fitted with satellite-navigation and loaded with a gaming database that maps a fantasy universe on to real-world locations.”

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Possibilities offered by satellite navigation

  • “Republicans called for Gregory Jaczko, head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to step down after it was revealed he had "unilaterally" moved to stop work on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump -- a project for a long-term disposal site that has been in the works for decades, but that President Obama vowed in 2009 to end.”

    The Huffington Post: Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Ethanol Tax Breaks Survive, but Vote May Have "Broken the Dam"

  • “He noted that the panel's final report wasn't due until January and said "we are committed to finding a sustainable approach to assuring safe, secure long-term disposal of used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Nuclear-Waste Costs Go Critical

  • “Damien LaVera, a spokesman for the Department of Energy, said "we fully intend to meet our contractual obligations for long-term disposal of these materials.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Nuclear-Waste Costs Go Critical

  • “They must demonstrate that the intelligence of mankind to-day, with the mechanical energy now at its disposal, is capable of organizing society so that food and shelter be made automatic, labor be reduced to a three-hour day, and joy and laughter be made universal.”

    Goliah

  • “Perhaps most of all, though, when you bite into a still warm, perfectly ripe tomato that you've just picked from the vine, or crunch down on that first, sweet carrot of the season, the sense of sheer pride in yourself, your garden and the fertile land you have at your disposal is beyond comparison.”

    Good Things GroOow...

  • “We are committed to finding a sustainable approach to assuring safe, secure long-term disposal of used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste," said Damien LaVera , the Energy Department's press secretary.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Panel Scorns Nuclear-Waste Policy

  • “Let's hear it for the Inquisition ... the world wasn't a dark, damp cave before the Industrial Revolution. and today, more people than ever die of hunger, malnutrition, disease, war, poisoning by byproducts, etc. than before the Revolution. all this, despite having the means to end it all. look: everything we've got at our disposal is built on the shoulders of those that came before.”

    A Priori (Jack Bog's Blog)

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synonyms (12)

Words with the same meaning

  1. control
  2. arrangement
  1. conduct
  2. regulation
  1. dispensation
  2. government
  1. distribution
  2. management
  1. disposition
  2. ordering
  1. adjustment
  2. direction

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. power
  1. powerfulness
  1. kitchen appliance

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. removal
  2. transportation
  3. storage
  4. maintenance
  1. evacuation
  2. recovery
  3. inspection
  4. decontamination
  1. distribution
  2. delivery
  3. acquisition
  4. identification
  1. shipment
  2. supervision
  3. preservation
  4. accumulation
  1. transfer
  2. most
  3. restoration
  4. destruction
  1. management
  2. installation

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. proposal

reverse dictionary (92)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. sewage disposal
  2. mine disposal
  3. disposal
  4. devotion
  5. disposition
  6. insanity
  7. intrust
  8. disposable
  9. dispose
  10. disposement
  11. disposure
  12. impetration
  13. grouping
  14. land-sale
  15. reduction-works
  16. sand-wheel
  17. sewage-sludge
  18. sewering
  1. bestowal
  2. marketability
  3. overtrade
  4. bacteria-tank
  5. compactor
  6. bandon
  7. clearing-sale
  8. consignee
  9. dispositive
  10. sanitation
  11. GD
  12. BD
  13. pull
  14. time
  15. transfer station
  16. slippery slope
  17. selloff
  18. deep six
  1. composting toilet
  2. administration
  3. command
  4. dependence
  5. usable
  6. useable
  7. ademption
  8. litterbag
  9. landfill
  10. septic tank
  11. play
  12. give
  13. plumbing
  14. plumbing system
  15. utility
  16. arrangement
  17. dust
  18. sale
  1. scrap
  2. testament
  3. will
  4. account
  5. available
  6. consignment
  7. micraster
  8. misdisposition
  9. patent
  10. Time
  11. tree burial
  12. absolutism
  13. belong
  14. carry
  15. claim
  16. clutch
  17. collocation
  18. commission-merchant
  1. common
  2. condominium
  3. dominion
  4. have
  5. magistrate
  6. property
  7. quartering
  8. receiver
  9. reserve
  10. aquation
  11. ash-trolley
  12. bacteria-bed
  13. peasantism
  14. sewage-farm
  15. sewage-siphon
  16. sludge
  17. telegraph
  18. trust
  1. use
  2. vest

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