25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Disbursement \Dis*burse"ment\, noun [Cf. F. d['e]boursement.]

1. The act of disbursing or paying out.

The disbursement of the public moneys. --U. S. Statutes.

2. That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

disbursement

noun

1: amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) [syn: {expense}, {disbursal}]

2: the act of spending or disbursing money [syn: {spending}, {disbursal}, {outlay}]
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