disposal

Other forms of disposal

plural

disposals·

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 disposal

What does disposal mean?

disposal means "the power to use something or someone". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disposal?

disposal has 3 syllables: di-spo-sal. The stress falls on "spo". In IPA it is /dɪˈspoʊzəl/.

What is another word for disposal?

Close synonyms include administration, disposition, electric pig, garbage disposal. 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 disposal a common word?

disposal is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.