disposals

noun

plural of disposal
1
as in removals
the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or useless trash disposal is on Wednesday in our neighborhood

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2
as in sequences
the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another the disposal of troops along the ridge

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Recent Examples of disposals Toilets flush more often, disposals run nonstop and hoses stay on for hours to fill kiddie pools or rinse off the grill. — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 4 July 2026 Clean and flush out drains and disposals well after each use for food preparation. — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 16 June 2026 The department says of the 3,077 full inspections this year, 349 of them involved food disposals. — Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2025 While not all activists are the same, there are many examples of activist directors pressing for an immediate sale of the company, buybacks, special dividends, or asset disposals rather than investments in growth. — Kai Liekefett, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 The disposals violated various state environmental and unfair competition laws. — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2025 The increasing number of disposals might spark concerns about Starlink debris landing over populated areas. — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 28 Feb. 2025 The source takes consolation in the recognition that land transfers, disposals, and transfer of mineral rights takes time — often years. — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Feb. 2025 The company said the decline in profit for the year was due to a loss on disposals and higher restructuring costs as a result of accelerating its productivity program. — Samantha Conti, WWD, 13 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disposals
  1. removals
  2. sequences
  3. dumpings
  4. arrangements
  5. dispositions
  6. distributions
Noun
  • The Supreme Court paused a lower court’s block on the removals while the case is litigated.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Community concerns Ever since the removals were announced, there's been a lot of community blowback.
    — Dennis Valera, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of removals
Noun
  • Robbyant said the model also provides stable object boundary detection, enabling robots to continuously track object edges and structures across video sequences.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 July 2026
  • There are a lot of action sequences where Moana and Maui have to get themselves out of harrowing situations, including a fairly sizable lava monster that might freak out really little children.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
Definition of sequences
Noun
  • Hosted by Ariana Madix, the reality show follows a group of young singles searching for love, with new bombshell arrivals and sudden dumpings from the Fiji villa keeping the hopefuls on their toes.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2026
  • Though the case has drawn attention because of Delvey's notoriety, all three women maintain that such rabbit dumpings happen all the time.
    — Tabitha Parent, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Definition of dumpings
Noun
  • Harry's team announced the decision over the weekend, which came after months of talks regarding security arrangements for the family.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • The presumption was the decor would involve tons of flowers, given the elaborate floral arrangements surrounding Swift when Kelce proposed to her in his Leawood backyard last summer.
    — Lisa Gutierrez July 7, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
Definition of arrangements
Noun
  • The dispositions in the Massachusetts arrests were not immediately clear.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
  • Change the leader themselves — their behaviours, their habits, their dispositions.
    — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Definition of dispositions
Noun
  • Robyn Schlice, a member of the church’s farmworker ministry, said the funds will support school supply drives, a computer literacy program, rental assistance and monthly distributions of clothing, food and household items.
    — Eliana Aguilar, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
  • But even these objections will not go to whether the creditor can get the charging order, but rather is limited to the priority of the charging order lien and order of priority in payment of the distributions.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of distributions

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