redisburse

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UK/ɹiːdɪsˈbəːs/

verb

To give or pay out again.

First used 16th c.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

verbredisburse (third-person singular simple present redisburses, present participle redisbursing, simple past and past participle redisbursed)

present singular third person redisburses · participle present redisbursing · participle past redisbursed · past redisbursed

  1. To give or pay out again.First known use 16th c.

    But when the floud is spent, then backe againe, / His borrowed waters forst to redisbourse, / He sends the sea his owne with double gaine […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From re- + disburse.

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APA

redisburse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redisburse

MLA

“redisburse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redisburse. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “redisburse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redisburse.

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