noun, verb ·Very common ·High school level
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"The scouts reported on the disposition of the enemy troops."
"You will have full disposition of these funds."
"The court ordered the disposition of all assets."
"The disposition of the case will be announced tomorrow."
"The patient was given a disposition for outpatient care, as ward admission was not indicated."
"This small harpsichord has a 1 x 4' disposition."
"I have little disposition now to do as you say."
"She has a sunny disposition."
"The C.C. is the supreme interpreter of the Constitution (Section 1 of the O.L.C.C.) and, as we have already said, it was granted the monopoly of declaring unconstitutional the legal dispositions."
"He is so mild in disposition that I have never heard him speak in a loud voice."
The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:; Control over something, or the results produced by the exercise of such control; thus:; The arrangement or placement of certain things.
Common synonyms include: inclination, temperament, tendency, a thing for, abalienation, abandonment.
He is so mild in disposition that I have never heard him speak in a loud voice.
Pronounced /ˌdɪs.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/.
From Middle English disposicioun, from Middle French disposition, from Latin dispositiōnem, accusative singular of dispositiō, from dispōnō. By surface analysis, dispose + -ition. Doublet of dispositio.