dispenser
a person or thing that dispenses.
a container, package, device, or vending machine for holding and dispensing something in small amounts, as facial tissue, paper cups, or candy.
Origin of dispenser
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How to use dispenser in a sentence
Guilavogui clapped his empty hands together and went up to the street to fold the newspaper dispensers up by the subway entrance.
Nowadays, the crooks jam up the MetroCard dispensers so people are unable to purchase or replenish one.
Forget the doctors who push pills like Pez Dispensers, Jackson might have had worse professional help among his legal team.
Here were the masters of the metropolis, the masters of life; the dispensers of patronage—that "public" which he had to please.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairTo-night you have assisted at our farewell appearance as gilded dispensers of ill-gotten wealth.
The Woman Gives | Owen Johnson
It was Roberts who secured a position behind one of these erstwhile dispensers of liquid soothing-syrup and rapped for order.
The Onslaught from Rigel | Fletcher PrattThat man is often uninformed simply because the dispensers of information are uninformed.
The Pacific Triangle | Sydney GreenbieThere was not a people in antiquity who had not dispensers of Divine favour.
Sermons Preached at Brighton | Frederick W. Robertson
British Dictionary definitions for dispenser
/ (dɪˈspɛnsə) /
a device, such as a vending machine, that automatically dispenses a single item or a measured quantity
a person or thing that dispenses
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