disposal

disposal
    n 1: the power to use something or someone; "used all the
         resources at his disposal"
    2: a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some
       group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
       [syn: {administration}, {disposal}]
    3: the act or means of getting rid of something [syn:
       {disposal}, {disposition}]
    4: a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage [syn:
       {disposal}, {electric pig}, {garbage disposal}]
    

Disposal \Dis*pos"al\, n. [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.
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   2. Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government;
      direction.
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            The execution leave to high disposal. --Milton.
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   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.
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            A domestic affair of great importance, which is no
            less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life.
                                                  --Tatler.
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   4. Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition
      of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the
      disposal of.
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            The sole and absolute disposal of him an his
            concerns.                             --South.

   Syn: Disposition; dispensation; management; conduct;
        government; distribution; arrangement; regulation;
        control.
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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