dispensings

Acts of distributing

Dispensings refers to instances of distributing, giving out, or administering something—typically medications, advice, or services.

The word appears most often in pharmaceutical contexts: The pharmacy's dispensings increased during flu season.

It can also describe the act of providing justice or other abstractions: the court's dispensings of mercy.

distribution

allocations

Designated shares of resources

shares · handouts · disbursements · distributions · apportionments · issuances · deliveries · provisions · supplies · quotas

pharmaceutical

prescriptions

Authorized medication orders

tablets · capsules · pills · syringes · injections · formulations · apothecary · compounds · doses · refills

mechanical

vending

Selling through machines

taps · spouts · valves · meters · automatic · self-service · kiosks · hoppers · feeders · cartridges

Opposites
distribution vs retention

dispensingswithholdings

Sums deducted from wages

retentions · hoardings · holdings · stockpilings · hoarding

provision vs deprivation

dispensingsdeprivations

States of lacking necessities

denials · refusals · confiscations · withdrawals · reclamations

provision vs. deprivation

dispensingsdeprivations

States of lacking necessities

denials · refusals · withholdings · restrictions · prohibitions

Family

dispensing

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