disposal

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A particular order, distribution, or placement.
• noun A particular method of attending to or settling matters.
• noun Transference by gift or sale.
• noun The act or process of getting rid of something.
• noun An electric device installed below a sink that grinds garbage so it can be flushed away.
• noun The liberty or power to dispose of something.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of disposing or placing; a setting or arranging; disposition or arrangement: as, the disposal of the troops in two lines; the disposal of books in a library.
• noun A disposing of by bestowal, alienation, riddance, etc.: as, the disposal of money by will; the disposal of a daughter in marriage; the disposal of an estate by sale; the disposal of sewage.
• noun Regulation, ordering, or arrangement, by right of power or possession; dispensation.
• noun Power or right to dispose of or control: preceded usually by at, sometimes by in or to: as, everything is left at, in, or to his disposal; the results are at or in the disposal of Providence.
• noun Synonyms and
• noun Disposition, distribution.
• noun 3 and Control, ordering, direction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order.
• noun Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.
• noun Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting.
• noun Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An arrangement, categorization or classification of things
• noun a disposing of or getting rid of something
• noun the power to use something or someone

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the power to use something or someone
• noun a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
• noun a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage
• noun the act or means of getting rid of something