Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dispose or adjust again.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
dispose again ; tosell on . - verb To
readjust .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dispose anew
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It will be far more difficult now, for example, to see the US attempt to militarily redispose its forces from the anachronism of the Cold War to seize control of strategic Southwest Asia ... as a Bush policy.
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The Company, I hear, is now ready, but not anxious, to redispose of those shares; and having obtained them at their depressed value, will now sell them at par, though, prior to the panic, they were held at a handsome figure above.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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Company, I hear, is now ready, but not anxious, to redispose of those shares; and having obtained them at their depressed value, will now sell them at par, though, prior to the panic, they were held at a handsome figure above.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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