dispenser
Americannoun
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a person or thing that dispenses.
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a container, package, device, or vending machine for holding and dispensing something in small amounts, as facial tissue, paper cups, or candy.
noun
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a device, such as a vending machine, that automatically dispenses a single item or a measured quantity
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a person or thing that dispenses
Etymology
Origin of dispenser
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; dispense, -er 1
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Example Sentences
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There’s that awful school pink liquid hand soap in the dispenser—but it smells craaaazy strong and somehow “institutional.”
From Literature
First, I saw that someone had stolen the shampoo dispenser.
From Los Angeles Times
Extra hand gel dispensers will also be provided, the trust said.
From BBC
Most Americans have been hearing tales of Pentagon woe—late, expensive new aircraft carriers; an 8,000% price markup on a soap dispenser inside a C-17 bathroom.
Mr. Easterly is not a friend of rich-world technocrats or top-down dispensers of aid and omniscience who frequently fail to consult the very people—the Third World poor—for whose salvation they get paid handsomely.
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