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disposal | Business English

disposal
noun
uk /dɪˈspəʊzəl/us
[ U ] ENVIRONMENT
the act or process of getting rid of something, especially by throwing it away:
This agency regulates the disposal of hazardous substances.
The manufacturing process is being changed in an effort to reduce waste disposal costs.
[ C or U ] FINANCE
something that is sold by a company, such an asset, property, or part of its business, or the act of doing this:
The company is looking at the disposal of non-core operations.
The official blamed lower sales on the disposal last year of assets that did not fit into the retail-and-luxury empire the company is trying to craft.
make a disposalThe supermarkets group is required by the competition authorities to make disposals as a condition of the merger.
Sales by volume, excluding acquisitions and disposals, rose 3%, up from 2.5% in the first quarter.
No firm timetable was set for asset disposals.
The company has launched a disposal programme to generate cash.
[ U ] FINANCE, BANKING
a situation in which it is stated that a debt does not need to be paid or will never be paid:
The company also put aside 5.29 billion yen in reserves for disposal of bad debt.
 at someone's disposal
available to someone:
Advertising and public relations specialists have a range of techniques at their disposal.
It's great that we have this innovative technology at our disposal.
The booming company has many billions at its disposal to fund new initiatives and acquisitions.

Examples of disposal

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No doubt disposals of that kind will continue over the years, but in an organised way.
On the question of disposals they all developed considerable skills.
Finally, were there any discernible temporal patterns to disposals ?
Disclose the effects of disposals of subsidiary undertakings.
The legal and tax frameworks have undergone extensive revision to facilitate acquisition and disposals.
More disposals are likely in 1992, although not at the same rate as last year.
The third force is the asymmetry regarding asset disposals between underfunding and overfunding under the current law.
By 1939, 54 crematoria had been opened, and 3.5 per cent of disposals were cremations.
There is a clear difference between library stock disposals and the second-hand book trade.
The reader will have to judge the scale and significance of the disposals for himself.
As a result, for instance, the number of manufactured products, amount of disposals, and total sales figure in that turn are calculated.
What is not readily to hand is a valid general assessment of the damage which the disposals may be doing.
There are general concessions in income tax systems, for example the transfer of profits on disposals to other capital assets.
All the land and other assets had not been valued and there had been no consideration of a clawback provision should the company profit from subsequent disposals.
The same did not apply on sentencing at reoffence when a number of subjects received community disposals, including one who had been convicted of causing grievous bodily harm.
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disposal facility
Again, the effects of the transport movements would also be an issue which would be considered at a public inquiry into a proposed disposalfacility.
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