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   Dis·pen·sa·tion

   /ˌdispənˈsāSH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. exemption from a rule or usual requirement: "although she was too young, she was given special dispensation to play two matches" Similar exemptionimmunityexceptionexclusionexonerationfreedomreleasereliefreprieveremissionrelaxationabsolutionimpunityinformal:a let-off
   • ▪ permission to be exempted from the laws or observances of the Church: "he received papal dispensation to hold a number of benefices"
   • 2. a system of order, government, or organization of a nation, community, etc., especially as existing at a particular time: "scholarship is conveyed to a wider audience than under the old dispensation" Similar systemorderschemeplanarrangementorganization
   • ▪ (in Christian theology) a divinely ordained order prevailing at a particular period of history: "the Mosaic dispensation"
   • ▪ an act of divine providence: archaic "the laws to which the creator in all his dispensations conforms"
   • 3. the action of distributing or supplying something: "regulations controlling dispensation of medications" Similar distributionprovisionprovidingsupplysupplyingissueissuingpassing aroundpassing outgiving outhanding outdealing outdoling outsharing outdividing outparceling outdivisionallocationallotmentapportionmentassignmentbestowalconfermentdisbursementinformal:dishing out

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin dispensatio(n-), from the verb dispensare (see dispense).

   Derivatives

   • 1. dispensational adjective

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