dispose of something
Definition
› to get rid of something; throw out or destroy: Every month he must dispose of the oil his restaurant uses to fry potatoes. The House will take up other issues once the tax bill is disposed of (= dealt with and completed).
(Definition of dispose of something from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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display v BECOME KNOWN
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display v SHOW
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displease v
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- dispose of something phrasal verb
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dispose v
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disposed adj
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