noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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However, they called for the maintenance of international sanctions until a new political dispensation was in place.
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They saw signs and omens of this new dispensation everywhere.
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The new cultural dispensation , Fumaroli argues, began not with André Malraux, but with Vichy.
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Although John cancelled his predecessors' grants, neither he nor subsequent popes abstained from issuing new dispensations to pluralists.
special
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Is it true that accountants have a special dispensation ?
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But I believe the town could make a special dispensation , if they cared to.
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But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday.
■ VERB
give
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Yet the regulators have given it a dispensation: the rubbish has to go somewhere.
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Manor said he had given this dispensation on 40 occasions.
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But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The dispensation of the land around Fort Ord should be a regional decision.
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You may be able to get special dispensation from a rabbi to eat non-kosher food.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And for all this wonderful dispensation toward us, we confess...
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But I believe the town could make a special dispensation , if they cared to.
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However, they called for the maintenance of international sanctions until a new political dispensation was in place.
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Legally, a dispensation could be made that would enable you to live on in the Porter house.
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One branch asked for a dispensation .
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Perhaps disloyalty to an existing dispensation that has endowed one with one's privileges does look like radical chic.
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The Secretary of State has also granted a general dispensation to members who are tenants of council houses.