disbursement

Other forms of disbursement

plural

disbursements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disbursement

What does disbursement mean?

disbursement means "amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disbursement?

disbursement has 3 syllables: dis-bur-sement. The stress falls on "bur". In IPA it is /dɪsˈbɝsmənt/.

What is another word for disbursement?

Close synonyms include expense, disbursal, spending, disbursal, outlay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disbursement a common word?

disbursement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disbursement?

1 word rhymes with disbursement. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.