Other forms: dispensers
A dispenser is a device that gives out one portion at a time. A soap dispenser, a drinks dispenser, refill the dispenser.
Putting alcohol gel dispensers at the entrance to every ward is one of the cheapest infection measures there is and it works when people use them. The word also names a person who dispenses medicines. The Latin means to weigh out.
1noundispenserA device that gives out one portion at a time.
“The soap dispenser in the bathroom is empty again.”
dispenser is a device.
Old French despenseor comes from Latin dispensare, to weigh out or distribute — dis plus pendere, to weigh.
Latin
dispensator
Old French
despenseor
English, today
dispenser
From Anglo-Norman - dispensour, from Old French despenseor, from Latin dispensator. by surface analysis, dispense + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA