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What does dispose of mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dispose of? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To get rid of.
  2. (transitive) To transfer to another's control.
  3. (transitive) To deal with conclusively with a threat or a difficult situation.
  4. (transitive) To arrange in an orderly way.
  5. (transitive, nonstandard, Euro-English) To have available, or at one's disposal.
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A company should responsibly dispose of the wastes it owns, whether selling it to others for reuse or paying for its disposal.
This conclusion is sufficient also to dispose of the complaint about redirection on the date of the alibi witness statements.
The forthcoming legislation aims to regulate how businesses reuse, reclaim, recycle and dispose of surplus electronic equipment.
Able UK does not have planning permission to build a dry dock to dispose of these boats, and it won't be allowed to deal with them in a wet dock.
An army bomb squad was scrambled to dispose of an unexploded mortar shell found poking out of a rabbit hole.
Perhaps it's just as well that I didn't have to dispose of it on the web, though.

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