disposal, n. (usu. foll. by of)
1 the act or an instance of disposing of something.
2 the arrangement, disposition, or placing of something.
3 control or management (of a person, business, etc.).
4 (esp. as waste disposal) the disposing of rubbish.

Idiom

at one's disposal
1 available for one's use.
2 subject to one's orders or decisions.

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THESAURUS

disposal

abalienation, abandonment, abjuration, administration, alienation, allocation, allotment, amortization, amortizement, apportionment, arrangement, array, arraying, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, castaway, castoff, cession, chucking, clearance, collation, collocation, command function, concord, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, constitution, conveyance, conveyancing, decision-making, deeding, deep six, deliverance, delivery, demise, demolishing, demolition, deployment, deportation, destroying, destruction, detachment, disbursal, disbursement, discard, discarding, disjunction, dispensation, dispersion, disposition, distribution, dole, doling, doling out, dumping, ejection, elimination, enfeoffment, eradication, exchange, executive function, exile, expatriation, expulsion, forgoing, form, formation, formulation, forswearing, getting rid of, giving, giving out, giving up, harmony, issuance, jettison, junking, layout, lease and release, letting go, lineup, liquidation, marshaling, officiation, order, ordering, organization, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, passing around, paying out, peace, placement, proportion, purge, quiet, quietude, recantation, refuse, regimentation, regularity, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, release, relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, resignation, retraction, riddance, routine, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, sequence, settlement, settling, setup, severance, structure, structuring, surrender, suspension, swearing off, symmetry, syntax, system, throwaway, trading, tranquillity, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, uniformity, vesting, withdrawal, yielding

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disposal

Use

N use, employ, employment, exercise, exercitation, application, appliance, adhibition, disposal, consumption, agency, usufruct, usefulness, benefit, recourse, resort, avail, utilization, service, wear, usage, in use, used, well-worn, well-trodden, useful, subservient.

Arrangement

N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.

Sale

N sale, vent, disposal, auction, roup, Dutch auction, outcry, vendue, custom, vendibility, vendibleness, seller, vender, vendor, merchant, auctioneer, under the hammer, on the market, for sale, salable, marketable, vendible, unsalable unpurchased, unbought, on one's hands, chose qui plait est a demi vendue.

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