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DISBURSAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disbursal mean? 

DISBURSAL (noun)
  The noun DISBURSAL has 2 senses:

1. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)play

2. the act of spending or disbursing moneyplay

  Familiarity information: DISBURSAL used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISBURSAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

disbursal; disbursement; expense

Hypernyms ("disbursal" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disbursal"):

business expense; trade expense (ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in a taxpayer's business or trade)

interest expense (interest paid on loans)

lobbying expense (expenses incurred in promoting or evaluating legislation)

medical expense (amount spent for diagnosis or treatment or prevention of medical problems)

non-cash expense (an expense (such as depreciation) that is not paid for in cash)

moving expense (the cost of moving your residence from one location to another)

budget items; operating cost; operating expense; overhead (the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes)

personal expense (the cost of personal or family living)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of spending or disbursing money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disbursal; disbursement; outlay; spending

Hypernyms ("disbursal" is a kind of...):

defrayal; defrayment; payment (the act of paying money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disbursal"):

expending; expenditure (the act of spending money for goods or services)

compensatory spending; deficit spending; pump priming (spending money raised by borrowing; used by governments to stimulate their economy)

Derivation:

disburse (expend, as from a fund)


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