disposer

From dispose +‎ -er.

disposer (plural disposers)

1. One who or that which disposes or disposes of something.

   Hyponyms: food waste disposer, garbage disposal

   Near-synonyms: (sentient agent type) decider, determiner

   the disposer of all things [Allah]

   • 2005, Code of Federal Regulations, page 699:

     Offer the PCB waste to transporters, disposers, or commercial storers of PCB waste who have not received an EPA identification number.

• food waste disposer

• dropsies

Borrowed from Latin dispōnere, and influenced by French poser.

• IPA^(key): /dis.po.ze/

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disposer

1. (transitive) to organize, to arrange, to distribute in a certain fashion
2. (transitive) to prepare (something) for an occasion, to incline (someone) towards
3. (pronominal) to prepare oneself for, to be about to
4. (intransitive) to have at one's disposal or available; to have access to
   • Jeudi, la commission avait déjà annoncé qu'elle disposait de suffisamment d'éléments pour invalider la candidature de Mikhaïl Kassianov. (Le Monde, 25 Feb 2008)

     The commission had already announced on Thursday that it had enough information to invalidate Mikhail Kassianov's candidature.

5. (intransitive) to use someone to do one's biddings
6. (intransitive) to leave, to go

   Merci, vous pouvez disposer. ― Thank you, you may leave.

7. (intransitive, law) to make use of one's right of dismembering, selling or otherwise dispose of a certain owned item
8. (transitive, rare) to prepare psychologically
9. (intransitive, rare) to take measures, to decree

• The indirect object in the intransitive construction is introduced by de; in the transitive and pronominal constructions, it is introduced by à.

• disposé

• “disposer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.