redisburse

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ disburse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiːdɪsˈbəːs/

Verb

redisburse (third-person singular simple present redisburses, present participle redisbursing, simple past and past participle redisbursed)

1. To give or pay out again. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But when the floud is spent, then backe againe, / His borrowed waters forst to redisbourse, / He sends the sea his owne with double gaine […].