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dispense with someone or something

to get rid of someone or something; to brush someone or something aside. I think we will dispense with that subject for the rest of the day. We will have to dispense with the expensive gifts this year.

dispense with something

1. to free of something unwanted People who believe we can dispense with government services don't realize how much they need them.

2. to not use something We dispensed with our second car and have saved a lot of money.

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"That is all very well," said one of the older foxes; "but I do not think you would have recommended us to dispense with our chief ornament if you had not happened to lose it yourself. Fables by Aesop View in context "My children," said the Oldest and Wisest Ape in All the World, when he had heard the Deputation, "you did right in ridding yourselves of tyranny, but your tribe is not sufficiently advanced to dispense with the forms of monarchy. Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context These recognitions alone dispense with the artificial aid of tokens or amulets. The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context			disease to please disembark from disengage from disentangle from disguise disguise as disguise in disgusted disgusted at disgusted with dish dish on dish out dish the dirt dish the dirt (on dishwater disinclined to dislodge from dismiss dismiss as dismount dismount from dispatch dispatch from dispatch to dispense with display to disposal dispose dispose of dispossess of dispute dispute with disqualify for dissatisfied with dissolve into distance Distance lends enchantment distill from distraction distribute distribute over distribute to ditch dive dive in with both feet dive into dive off diverge from divert from divide			Dispensatio est vulnus dispensation dispensation dispensation dispensational dispensational dispensational Dispensational International Research Network dispensations dispensations dispensations Dispensative Dispensatively Dispensator dispensatories dispensatories Dispensatorily dispensatory dispensatory Dispensatory of the United States of America Dispensatory of the United States of America dispense dispense dispense dispense dispense dispense dispense as written dispense as written dispense judgment dispense with dispense with services dispense with services dispense with services dispensed dispensed dispensed dispensed dispensed with dispensed with services dispensed with services dispensed with services dispenser dispenser dispenser dispenser dispenser dispenser Dispenser Card Reader dispenser cathode Dispenser Control Unit dispensers dispensers dispenses dispenses dispenses dispenses dispenses with services dispenses with services dispenses with services dispensing

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