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disposal

/dɪsˈpoʊ.zəl/ noun B2
  1. A disposition; an arrangement, categorization, or classification of things. (countable) · at your disposal
  2. A kick or a handball of the ball during a game. (countable)
  3. A sexual paraphilia, as in art, fiction, and role-playing, that involves a character consuming and digesting another and disposing their remains as bodily fluids, typically as via ejaculation or defecation. (countable, slang, uncountable)
  4. The power to use something or someone. (uncountable)
  5. A garbage disposal (countable)

Plural disposals

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Well, then, see, here is a gentleman who had none of these resources at his disposal—a gentleman, only a simple magistrate, who learned more than you with all your police, and who would have saved my crown, if, like you, he had the power of directing a telegraph.” The look of the minister of police was turned with concentrated spite on Villefort, who bent his head in modest triumph.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 102 · C1
He had already put all his knowledge at the disposal of the police.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 17 · B2
“You are ready enough to use all the information that the police can lay at your disposal, and then you try to finish the case yourself and bring discredit on them.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 78 · B2
But I am at his disposal.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 212 · B2

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