to no longer use someone or something because you no longer want or need them
He was brash and quick to dispense with protocol, and had ordered his servants and guards to leave him alone.
I think we all know each other, so we can dispense with the formalities.
We have reluctantly decided to dispense with Porter’s services after a series of poor results.
dispenses with
dispensing with
dispensed with
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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