disponering

disponering
 n.β€” Β«I, for my own female brain, didn’t realize that Filipino innovations could lead to the fixing of cars or in layman’s term “disponering.”…I found out later that the car is a wreck he brought from the surplus, not his personal car as he claimed. Everything inside the car was not Mitsubishi spare parts, “disponering” as they call it.Β» β€”β€œA balikbayan victimized by Pinoy cheats” by Zoe Cadena-Pittracher News Today (Iloilo City, Philippines) Nov. 27, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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