disposer

English

Etymology

From dispose +‎ -er.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• food waste disposer

Anagrams

• dropsies

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dispōnere, and influenced by French poser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.po.ze/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

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

Usage notes

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

Conjugation

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).

Related terms

• disposé

Further reading

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