dispense

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dispense /dɪˈspɛns/

▶verb

• 1 distribute to a number of people.

  ■ (of a machine or container) supply or release (a product or cash).

  ■ (of a chemist) supply (medicine) according to a prescription.

• 2 (dispense with) get rid of or manage without.

• 3 exempt (someone) from a religious obligation.

– derivatives
dispenser noun.

– origin ME: via OFr. from L. dispensare ‘continue to weigh out or disburse’, from dispendere, based on pendere ‘weigh’.