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dispenser

noun

  1. storage container designed for dispensing items or material within, usually in constrained quanitites
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Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɛnsə/

noun

Etymology: From Anglo-Norman dispensour, from Old French despenseor, from Latin dispensator. By surface analysis, dispense + -er.

  1. Something or someone that dispenses things.

    While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.

  2. Something or someone that dispenses things.

    a toilet-paper dispenser

  3. Something or someone that dispenses things.