to dispense with formalities

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• dispense with — verb 1. give up what is not strictly needed (Freq. 1) he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey • Syn: ↑spare, ↑give up, ↑part with • Hypernyms: ↑give …   Useful english dictionary

• dispense with — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms dispense with : present tense I/you/we/they dispense with he/she/it dispenses with present participle dispensing with past tense dispensed with past participle dispensed with formal dispense with… …   English dictionary

• dispense with somebody — diˈspense with sb/sth derived to stop using sb/sth because you no longer need them or it Syn: do away with • Debit cards dispense with the need for cash altogether. • I think we can …   Useful english dictionary

• dispense with something — diˈspense with sb/sth derived to stop using sb/sth because you no longer need them or it Syn: do away with • Debit cards dispense with the need for cash altogether. • I think we can …   Useful english dictionary

• dispense with — 1) let s dispense with the formalities Syn: waive, omit, drop, leave out, forgo; do away with, give something a miss 2) he dispensed with his crutches Syn: get rid of, throw away/out, dispose of, discard; …   Thesaurus of popular words

• dispense with — 1) let s dispense with the formalities Syn: waive, omit, drop, leave out, forgo, do away with; informal give something a miss 2) he dispensed with his crutches Syn: get rid of, throw away/out, dispose of, discard; i …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• dispense — dis|pense [ dı spens ] verb transitive 1. ) if a machine dispenses something such as food, drink, or money, it gives it to you a ) to provide or supply something, especially officially: dispense justice: the failure of the country s authorities… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• dispense — v. 1) (B) to dispense charity to the needy; to dispense equal justice to all 2) (d; intr.) to dispense with (to dispense with the formalities) * * * [dɪs pens] to dispense equal justice to all (B) to dispense charity to the needy (d; intr.) to… …   Combinatory dictionary

• dispense — di|spense [dıˈspens] v [T] formal [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: dispensare to share out , from pendere to weigh ] 1.) to give something to people, especially in fixed amounts = ↑give out dispense sth to sb ▪ Villagers dispensed tea to people …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• dispense — verb (T) 1 formal to give something to people, especially in fixed amounts: Villagers dispensed tea to people involved in the accident. 2 to prepare and give medicines to people 3 to officially provide something for people in a society: dispense… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Preposition and postposition — Prepositions (or more generally, adpositions, see below) are a grammatically distinct class of words whose most central members characteristically express spatial relations (such as the English words in, under, toward) or serve to mark various… …   Wikipedia