Disburse vs Recourse - What's the difference?
disburse | recourse |
(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
The act of seeking assistance or advice.
* Sir H. Wotton
* Dryden
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
* 1929 , , chapter VIII, section ii:
(obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
* Spenser
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Access; admittance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To return; to recur.
* (rfdate) Foxe:
(obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
* (Bishop Hacket)
As verbs the difference between disburse and recourse
is that disburse is (finance) to pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury while recourse is (obsolete) to return; to recur.As a noun recourse is
the act of seeking assistance or advice.disburse
English
Verb
(disburs)Usage notes
* Do not confuse with the scattering word disperse, despite similarity.Synonyms
(to pay out) shell out (informal), cough up (informal), fork out (informal), fork over (informal)Derived terms
* disbursementrecourse
English
Noun
- Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
- Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
- Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
- Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .
- swift recourse of flushing blood
- Preventive physic preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
- Give me recourse to him.
Derived terms
* legal recourseVerb
(recours)- The flame departing and recoursing .
