dispense

verb

• 1 [with object] distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people:orderlies went round dispensing drinks
• (of a machine or container) supply or release (a product or cash):the machines dispense a range of drinks (as adjective dispensing)a dispensing machine
• (of a chemist) make up and give out (medicine) according to a doctor’s prescription: he was stopped from dispensing prescriptions

• 2 [no object] (dispense with) manage without or get rid of:let’s dispense with the formalities, shall we?
• give special exemption from (a law or rule):the Secretary of State was empowered to dispense with the nationality requirement in individual cases
• [with object] grant (someone) an exemption from a religious obligation:the Pope personally nominated him as bishop, dispensing him from his impediment