disbursement

Money paid out

Disbursement is the paying out of money, especially from a fund or account designated for a particular purpose.

The term appears in legal, financial, and administrative contexts: The foundation approved disbursement of grant funds.

A disbursement is also a specific payment made: Monthly disbursements to beneficiaries totaled fifty thousand dollars.

expenses

expenditure

Money paid out

tuition · fees · charges · dues · premiums · maintenance · procurement

payment

remittance

Funds sent elsewhere

transfer · transaction · payee · payer · creditor · debtor · invoice · receipt · voucher · clearance

release

distribution

Allocation across recipients

authorization · approval · processing · clearing · execution · trigger

allocation

apportionment

Division into shares

assignment · provisioning · rationing · quota · prioritization · tranche · appropriation · set-aside

budgeting

forecasting

Estimating future conditions

fiscal · appropriation · encumbrance · reconciliation · audit · compliance · treasury · liquidity

Categories
Opposites
direction of money flow

disbursementdeposit

Place for safekeeping

receipt · income · collection · inflow · acquisition

action vs. non-action of payment

disbursementnonpayment

Failure to settle debts

withholding · default · retention · underpayment · holding back

distribution vs. accumulation

disbursementsavings

Accumulated money kept

accumulation · retention · hoard · hoarding · collection

Family

disbursements

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