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The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes.

the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Himself busy in charge of the household economies. Froude.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.

To place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement.

Expense; cost; disbursement. [Obs.]

In Great Britain, an officer of the Treasury who makes all payments and disbursements, civil as well as military. He is a member of the ministry, but not of the cabinet.

propriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.

A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to. [Obs.] Rees.

session of land and rent. Suspense account (Bookkeeping), an account in which receipts or disbursements are temporarily entered until their proper position in the books is determined.

is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.