disposer
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editdisposer (plural disposers)
- 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.
Derived terms
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editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin dispōnere, and influenced by French poser.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editdisposer
- (transitive) to organize, to arrange, to distribute in a certain fashion
- (transitive) to prepare (something) for an occasion, to incline (someone) towards
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to prepare oneself for, to be about to
- (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.
- 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)
- (intransitive) to use someone to do one's biddings
- (intransitive) to leave, to go
- Merci, vous pouvez disposer. ― Thank you, you may leave.
- (intransitive, law) to make use of one's right of dismembering, selling or otherwise dispose of a certain owned item
- (transitive, rare) to prepare psychologically
- (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
editConjugation of disposer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | disposer | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “disposer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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