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disposal
OXFORD DICTIONARY
disposal, n. (usu. foll. by of)
1 the act or an instance of disposing of something.
2 the arrangement, disposition, or placing of something.
3 control or management (of a person, business, etc.).
4 (esp. as waste disposal) the disposing of rubbish.
1 the act or an instance of disposing of something.
2 the arrangement, disposition, or placing of something.
3 control or management (of a person, business, etc.).
4 (esp. as waste disposal) the disposing of rubbish.
Idiom
at one's disposal
1 available for one's use.
2 subject to one's orders or decisions.
1 available for one's use.
2 subject to one's orders or decisions.
THESAURUS
disposal
abalienation, abandonment, abjuration, administration, alienation, allocation, allotment, amortization, amortizement, apportionment, arrangement, array, arraying, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, castaway, castoff, cession, chucking, clearance, collation, collocation, command function, concord, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, constitution, conveyance, conveyancing, decision-making, deeding, deep six, deliverance, delivery, demise, demolishing, demolition, deployment, deportation, destroying, destruction, detachment, disbursal, disbursement, discard, discarding, disjunction, dispensation, dispersion, disposition, distribution, dole, doling, doling out, dumping, ejection, elimination, enfeoffment, eradication, exchange, executive function, exile, expatriation, expulsion, forgoing, form, formation, formulation, forswearing, getting rid of, giving, giving out, giving up, harmony, issuance, jettison, junking, layout, lease and release, letting go, lineup, liquidation, marshaling, officiation, order, ordering, organization, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, passing around, paying out, peace, placement, proportion, purge, quiet, quietude, recantation, refuse, regimentation, regularity, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, release, relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, resignation, retraction, riddance, routine, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, sequence, settlement, settling, setup, severance, structure, structuring, surrender, suspension, swearing off, symmetry, syntax, system, throwaway, trading, tranquillity, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, uniformity, vesting, withdrawal, yieldingROGET THESAURUS
disposal
Use
N use, employ, employment, exercise, exercitation, application, appliance, adhibition, disposal, consumption, agency, usufruct, usefulness, benefit, recourse, resort, avail, utilization, service, wear, usage, in use, used, well-worn, well-trodden, useful, subservient.Arrangement
N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.Sale
N sale, vent, disposal, auction, roup, Dutch auction, outcry, vendue, custom, vendibility, vendibleness, seller, vender, vendor, merchant, auctioneer, under the hammer, on the market, for sale, salable, marketable, vendible, unsalable unpurchased, unbought, on one's hands, chose qui plait est a demi vendue.For further exploring for "disposal" in Webster Dictionary Online