"dispense with" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dispenses with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dispensing with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dispensed with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dispensed with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "dispense with (third-person singular simple present dispenses with, present participle dispensing with, simple past and past participle dispensed with)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"with\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954 February, “Notes and News: Deviation at Bramwith”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:",
          "text": "When the scheme is completed, the 99-year-old swing bridge over the canal will be dispensed with as the new bridge will have sufficient height to allow clearance for the passage of canal traffic.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, pages 200–201:",
          "text": "You might learn, for instance, that table manners can be dispensed with at restaurants, because the grown-ups are too embarrassed to discipline you in public.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eliminate or do without."
      ],
      "id": "en-dispense_with-en-verb-L95CKDIb",
      "links": [
        [
          "eliminate",
          "eliminate"
        ],
        [
          "do without",
          "do without"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To eliminate or do without."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dispense with"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dispenses with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dispensing with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dispensed with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dispensed with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "dispense with (third-person singular simple present dispenses with, present participle dispensing with, simple past and past participle dispensed with)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"with\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954 February, “Notes and News: Deviation at Bramwith”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:",
          "text": "When the scheme is completed, the 99-year-old swing bridge over the canal will be dispensed with as the new bridge will have sufficient height to allow clearance for the passage of canal traffic.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, pages 200–201:",
          "text": "You might learn, for instance, that table manners can be dispensed with at restaurants, because the grown-ups are too embarrassed to discipline you in public.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eliminate or do without."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eliminate",
          "eliminate"
        ],
        [
          "do without",
          "do without"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To eliminate or do without."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dispense with"
}