disposer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dispose +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

disposer (plural disposers)

  1. One who disposes.
    • 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.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin dispōnere, and influenced by French poser.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /dis.po.ze/
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Verb[edit]

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. (takes a reflexive pronoun) 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

Usage notes[edit]

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

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of disposer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple disposer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple disposant
/dis.po.zɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle disposé
/dis.po.ze/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present dispose
/dis.poz/ 		disposes
/dis.poz/ 		dispose
/dis.poz/ 		disposons
/dis.po.zɔ̃/ 		disposez
/dis.po.ze/ 		disposent
/dis.poz/
imperfect disposais
/dis.po.zɛ/ 		disposais
/dis.po.zɛ/ 		disposait
/dis.po.zɛ/ 		disposions
/dis.po.zjɔ̃/ 		disposiez
/dis.po.zje/ 		disposaient
/dis.po.zɛ/
past historic2 disposai
/dis.po.ze/ 		disposas
/dis.po.za/ 		disposa
/dis.po.za/ 		disposâmes
/dis.po.zam/ 		disposâtes
/dis.po.zat/ 		disposèrent
/dis.po.zɛʁ/
future disposerai
/dis.poz.ʁe/ 		disposeras
/dis.poz.ʁa/ 		disposera
/dis.poz.ʁa/ 		disposerons
/dis.poz.ʁɔ̃/ 		disposerez
/dis.poz.ʁe/ 		disposeront
/dis.poz.ʁɔ̃/
conditional disposerais
/dis.poz.ʁɛ/ 		disposerais
/dis.poz.ʁɛ/ 		disposerait
/dis.poz.ʁɛ/ 		disposerions
/dis.po.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		disposeriez
/dis.po.zə.ʁje/ 		disposeraient
/dis.poz.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present dispose
/dis.poz/ 		disposes
/dis.poz/ 		dispose
/dis.poz/ 		disposions
/dis.po.zjɔ̃/ 		disposiez
/dis.po.zje/ 		disposent
/dis.poz/
imperfect2 disposasse
/dis.po.zas/ 		disposasses
/dis.po.zas/ 		disposât
/dis.po.za/ 		disposassions
/dis.po.za.sjɔ̃/ 		disposassiez
/dis.po.za.sje/ 		disposassent
/dis.po.zas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — dispose
/dis.poz/ 		— disposons
/dis.po.zɔ̃/ 		disposez
/dis.po.ze/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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