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disbursement

[dis-burs-muhnt] / dɪsˈbɜrs mənt /


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The European Commission said it was pushing for Kyiv to receive the first disbursement in April, as it provided details of the facility at a press conference in Brussels.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

After the initiative passed, Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, appointed the younger Reiner chairman of the First 5 commission overseeing disbursement of the funds.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

The U.S. government can strengthen the commonwealth by accelerating the disbursement of reconstruction funds for the island’s energy grid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

The resignation reportedly has something to do with Elon Musk’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency and its attempts to “access” the treasury’s disbursement systems.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2025

Nothing shows more strikingly the shoe-string on which the enterprise was being run than the fact that this unexpected disbursement reduced Eaton's war-chest to three Venetian sequins—equivalent to six dollars and fifty-four cents!

From Gentlemen Rovers by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)