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  • noun Plural form of dispenser.

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Examples

  • And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice, invoking the mother of Dindymum, most venerable, dweller in Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother, — the Idaean

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother, -- the Idaean

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother, -- the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • The United States dropped more than 1,100 of them on Kosovo this spring: that is, 1,100 "dispensers" containing a total of more than 200,000 "bomblets," as the soda-can-sized explosives are called.

    Seeds Of Carnage 2008

  • The facility covers 12,000 square meters, and is the point of distribution of products such as dispensers, point-of-sale and payment systems, as well as fuel-equipment parts to more than 80 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • The problem is most of these places were using refillable soap dispensers, so contamination was happening when the filth-ridden employees were doing the refilling (the fancier kind of dispensers with sealed, disposable bags inside were clean).

    Cracked: All Posts 2009

  • Seems to me the reason you see big chains in airports is that the chains are the only food "dispensers" that can afford the ginormous fees required to be paid to the municipal governments.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Bulk purchasing and use of in-room dispensers delivering genuine Aruba Aloe freshly made shampoos, conditioners and lotions instead of individual packages in plastic containers.

    Starre Vartan: Progressive and Sustainable in the Caribbean: Bucuti and Tara Beach Resorts LGBT-friendly and Green Starre Vartan 2011

  • Bulk purchasing and use of in-room dispensers delivering genuine Aruba Aloe freshly made shampoos, conditioners and lotions instead of individual packages in plastic containers.

    Starre Vartan: Progressive and Sustainable in the Caribbean: Bucuti and Tara Beach Resorts LGBT-friendly and Green Starre Vartan 2011

  • It claimed that Veeder-Root distributed false marketing materials including statements that (1) one in four (22%) of Healy Systems failed, and (2) that an ARB investigation had concluded that problems with the Healy System were triggering alarms on the Veeder-Root ISD, causing the Veeder-Root ISD to shut down dispensers (and increasing site maintanence costs).

    Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

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