1. To place or set in a particular order; arrange. 2. To put (business affairs, for example) into correct, definitive, or conclusive form. 3. To put into a willing or receptive frame of mind; incline. See synonyms at incline.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To settle or decide a matter.
NOUN:
Obsolete1. Disposal. 2. Disposition; demeanor.
PHRASAL VERB:
dispose of1. To attend to; settle: disposed of the problem quickly.2. To transfer or part with, as by giving or selling. 3. To get rid of; throw out. 4. To kill or destroy: a despot who disposed of all his enemies, real or imagined.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English disposen, from Old French disposer, alteration (influenced by poser, to put, place) of Latin dispnere, to arrange : dis-, apart; see dis– + pnere, to put; see apo- in Appendix I.
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