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  • verb Present participle of dispose.

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Examples

  • In addition, the decision by Seven-Eleven Japan to shoulder part of the losses that franchise stores incur in disposing of unsold perishables also pushed up earnings.

    Seven Hiroyuki Kachi 2010

  • And there were more young men at the house than formerly, and they helped in disposing of the cocktails.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • Coming off a 10-point loss to unheralded Middle Tennessee State, the Terrapins were given little chance against a California juggernaut that totaled 104 points in disposing of Michigan State and Pac-10 foe Washington State.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • In these early days this Agency used the facilities of the Exchange in disposing of pool grain.

    The State and Foreign Trade 1946

  • So successful have they been in disposing of the water in that area that now they are appealing to the Provincial Government to do something to restore the flow of water in the river, for it is not sufficient in the summer time to carry away the sewage of the communities on its banks.

    Ontario's Postwar Planning Needs 1945

  • The Indian's guardian had got into a way of usurping autocratic power in disposing of the wards 'property.

    American Indian Stories 1921

  • I should have no trouble in disposing of the place I had bought.

    Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

  • 'If it comes to that though, I fancy you'd have some trouble in disposing of me against my will.'

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • No one but those who have encountered it, can be aware of the difficulty there is in disposing of the stores and captured guns of your enemy.

    The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

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