how to pronounce dispensation

/ˌdɪs.pɛnˈsɛɪ.ʃən/

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dispensation is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of dispensation in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… Welsh devolution dispensation I never …”

meanings of dispensation

noun:

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed.
A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).

dispensation frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word dispensation occurs in english on average 1.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics dispensation can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that dispensation can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;