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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disposal \Dis*pos"al\, noun [From {Dispose}.]
1. The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.
2. Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.
The execution leave to high disposal. --Milton.
3. Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property.
A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life. --Tatler.
4. Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of.
The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns. --South.
Syn: Disposition; dispensation; management; conduct; government; distribution; arrangement; regulation; control.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disposal
noun
1: the power to use something or someone; "used all the resources at his disposal"
2: a method of tending to (especially business) matters [syn: {administration}]
3: the act or means of getting rid of something [syn: {disposition}]
4: a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage [syn: {electric pig}, {garbage disposal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "disposal": abalienation, abandonment, abjuration, administration, alienation, allocation, allotment, amortization, amortizement, apportionment, arrangement, array, arraying, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, castaway, castoff, cession, chucking, clearance, collation, collocation, command function, concord, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, constitution, conveyance, conveyancing, decision-making, deeding, deep six, deliverance, delivery, demise, demolishing, demolition, deployment, deportation, destroying, destruction, detachment, disbursal, disbursement, discard, discarding, disjunction, dispensation, dispersion, disposition, distribution, dole, doling, doling out, dumping, ejection, elimination, enfeoffment, eradication, exchange, executive function, exile, expatriation, expulsion, forgoing, form, formation, formulation, forswearing, getting rid of, giving, giving out, giving up, harmony, issuance, jettison, junking, layout, lease and release, letting go, lineup, liquidation, marshaling, officiation, order, ordering, organization, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, passing around, paying out, peace, placement, proportion, purge, quiet, quietude, recantation, refuse, regimentation, regularity, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, release, relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, resignation, retraction, riddance, routine, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, sequence, settlement, settling, setup, severance, structure, structuring, surrender, suspension, swearing off, symmetry, syntax, system, throwaway, trading, tranquillity, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, uniformity, vesting, withdrawal, yielding
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