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put someone or something at someone's disposal

to make someone or something available to someone; to offer someone or something to someone. I'd be glad to help you if you need me. I put myself at your disposal. I put my car at my neighbor's disposal.

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somebody is at your disposal

someone is available to help you I know there is plenty of work to do, so my daughter is at your disposal.

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something is at your disposal

something is available to be used by you The committee has limited resources at its disposal. We have $100,000 at our disposal to provide food for homeless people.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the form at the disposal of someone: More powerful guns are at the disposal of criminals than ever before.

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put at someone's disposal

Allow one to use, as in They put their car at our disposal for our entire stay. This idiom employs disposal in the sense of "the liberty or power to use something," a usage dating from the early-1600s.

See also: disposal, put