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  • noun Common misspelling of disbursement.

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Examples

  • A not-well-known fact is the dispersement which is occurring from the two main towns.

    Background Briefing On Haiti ITY National Archives 1994

  • Among other efforts, Penn has become the leader of the 55,000 person J/P HRO refugee camp in the Haitian suburb for Petionville, overseeing 11,000 tents, medical personnel, a market and food dispersement.

    Sean Penn: In Haiti 'For The Rest Of My Life' Jordan Zakarin 2011

  • In the event of an Ares I first stage failure, 400°F SRB material longitudinally projecting through a liquid second stage will cause that stage to fail and result in an energy change of the SRB material and therefore its dispersement pattern.

    Ares V - Ares 1 = Ares IV - NASA Watch 2009

  • As can be seen in the YouTube video of the Titan failure to which NasaWatch linked, a side-mounted liquid stage had very little effect on the SRM material dispersement pattern directed along the longitudinal axis of the launcher when the one of the Titan's SRM's blew a gasket.

    Ares V - Ares 1 = Ares IV - NASA Watch 2009

  • Thomas Pynchon's recent Inherent Vice was an attempt to "capture" the late 1960s in Los Angeles, but while it does surround the period in an idyllic (and marijuna-produced) haze, at the same it shows the idyll to be inherently unstable, setting the conditions of its own dispersement.

    May 2010 2010

  • Among other efforts, Penn has become the leader of the 55,000 person J/P HRO refugee camp in the Haitian suburb for Petionville, overseeing 11,000 tents, medical personnel, a market and food dispersement.

    Sean Penn: In Haiti 'For The Rest Of My Life' Jordan Zakarin 2011

  • SP: His charity J/P Haitian Relief Organization oversees a refugee camp, with 11,000 tents, medical personnel, a market and food dispersement.

    Sean Penn vs. Wyclef Jean: The Haiti Duel One Year Later Melissa Bell 2011

  • Thomas Pynchon's recent Inherent Vice was an attempt to "capture" the late 1960s in Los Angeles, but while it does surround the period in an idyllic (and marijuna-produced) haze, at the same it shows the idyll to be inherently unstable, setting the conditions of its own dispersement.

    The Reading Experience 2010

  • With a small budget and access to a single oil-dispersement plane based in another country, his agency has almost no means to respond to near-daily spill reports.

    Oil Hearing to Cast Spotlight on West Africa Benoit Faucon 2011

  • Thomas Pynchon's recent Inherent Vice was an attempt to "capture" the late 1960s in Los Angeles, but while it does surround the period in an idyllic (and marijuna-produced) haze, at the same it shows the idyll to be inherently unstable, setting the conditions of its own dispersement.

    Confusion and Turbulence 2010

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