All 11 Uses of

dispose

in

The Jungle, by Sinclair

In the same way Scully had all the jobs in the fire department at his disposal, and all the rest of the city graft in the stockyards district; he was building a block of flats somewhere up on Ashland Avenue, and the man who was overseeing it for him was drawing pay as a city inspector of sewers.
Chpt 9

disposal = command

…the product of the labor of society, the means of existence of the human race, will always belong to idlers and parasites, to be spent for the gratification of vanity and lust—to be spent for any purpose whatever, to be at the disposal of any individual will whatever—t
Chpt 28 *

Fortunately, the policeman is disposed to be reasonable, and so it is not Marija who is flung out of the place.†
Chpt 1 *

Of this he was very proud, and it made him more disposed than ever to laugh at the pessimists.†
Chpt 2

One day a man slipped and hurt his leg; and that afternoon, when the last of the cattle had been disposed of, and the men were leaving, Jurgis was ordered to remain and do some special work which this injured man had usually done.†
Chpt 5

There were some with broken legs, and some with gored sides; there were some that had died, from what cause no one could say; and they were all to be disposed of, here in darkness and silence.†
Chpt 5

Like as not there would come a rush of cattle at the very end of the day, which the men would have to dispose of before they went home, often working by electric light till nine or ten, or even twelve or one o'clock, and without a single instant for a bite of supper.†
Chpt 8

Such rejected or condemned animals shall at once be removed by the owners from the pens containing animals which have been inspected and found to be free from disease and fit for human food, and shall be disposed of in accordance with the laws, ordinances, and regulations of the state and municipality in which said rejected or condemned animals are located.... Section 25.†
Chpt 9

Each crisis would leave Jurgis more and more frightened, more disposed to distrust Elzbieta's consolations, and to believe that there was some terrible thing about all this that he was not allowed to know.†
Chpt 15

Then, seeing that the two were disposed to join the fray, he made another rush at Jurgis, and knocked aside his feeble defense and sent him tumbling again; and the three flung themselves upon him, rolling and kicking about the place.†
Chpt 25

They do nothing to earn what they receive, they do not even have to ask for it—it comes to them of itself, their only care is to dispose of it.†
Chpt 28

Definitions:

(1) (dispose as in: dispose of the waste)
to throw away
(2) (dispose as in: dispose of the matter)
to settle something so it no longer requires attention
(3) (dispose as in: dispose of the assets)
sell or transfer to another
(4) (dispose as in: disposed the troops along...)
the arrangement, positioning, or use of things
This sense of dispose can be used in the form disposal to indicate that a person can use something as they wish -- as in:
- I am at your disposal.
- She has many assets at her disposal.
(5) (dispose as in: Is she disposed to help?)
inclined (with a tendency to; or in the mood to)

This is usually seen in the form "disposed to..." or "disposed toward..."