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distribute English

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distribute Verb

— When you distribute something, you divide it and give it out. Please distribute this poster to all the people on that list.

distribute

— verb (= administer, deal, dispense, shell out, dole out) administer or bestow, as in small portions administer critical remarks to everyone present dole out some money shell out pocket money for the children deal a blow to someone the machine dispenses soft drinks — verb (= spread) distribute or disperse widely The invaders spread their language all over the country — verb make available The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia — verb (= hand out) give to several people The teacher handed out the exams — verb (= circulate) cause be distributed This letter is being circulated among the faculty — verb (= circulate, broadcast, spread) cause to become widely known spread information circulate a rumor broadcast the news — verb be mathematically distributive — verb be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses Values distribute — verb spread throughout a given area the function distributes the values evenly — verb (= stagger) to arrange in a systematic order stagger the chairs in the lecture hall

Synonyms distribute synonyms

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distribute English » English

divide allot share apportion dispense allocate hand out give out spread scatter deal give disseminate deliver circulate disperse assign issue diffuse deal out share out dole out propagate portion pass out pass around parcel out dish out broadcast separate sell administer supply lot divide among dissipate classify circularize circularise bestow stagger split shell out serve portion out mete out give away divide up divide into parts dispose

Topics distribute topics

What do people use distribute to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance

Share wealth
Physical actions Have, be with

Distribute
Physical actions Arrange Gather

Separate, scatter

Conjugation distribute conjugation

How do you conjugate distribute?

distribute · verb

Examples distribute examples

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Simple sentences

The media doesn't distribute this news.
The Royal Canadian Mint will no longer distribute the coin to financial institutions around the country, but it will remain legal tender.
We would like to distribute your product in Japan.
Newspapers distribute information to the public.
We would like to distribute this product in Japan.

Movie subtitles

Upon my release, which will not be long, I will distribute the loot.
Distribute the equipment.
Per the instructions you have just received, at exactly 11:00 tomorrow night you will break into the bank and replace the bills now deposited in the bank with the counterfeit bills so that the bank itself will distribute the counterfeit money.
Mr Cole. Would you distribute the gifts to King Tynah and his good people.
Of course, we could take out the pieces. and distribute them in three or four boxes in the vault. and take a small room.
He'll distribute it.
They distribute call-up cards again.
You will rewrite, copy and distribute it among houses.
The wax is melted in the cauldron you see above the vat. liquefied and brought to a boiling point. so that it will distribute itself evenly over the body.
Now, we'll distribute the spoils!
Open the spare cabins take out the lifebelts and blankets and get your men to distribute them.
Distribute the ration.
Buy tobacco and I'll distribute it.
On my signal, distribute them. Until then, hide them well.
They distribute this criminal material everyday in the Skoda plant.
He uses our beer wagons to distribute our leaflets.
Would Senior Master kindly distribute the papers when I say so?
Give my congratulations to your actors, and distribute this among them for me.
You'll distribute to your voters and make me a fool!
The wax is melted in the caldron you see above the vat liquefied and brought to a boiling point so that it will distribute itself evenly over the body.
Do they still distribute water?
Buy some tobacco. I'll distribute it.
But as Duke of Higuera I am going to grant amnesty and distribute foods among the people.
I sent the women home and distribute bread and vine among the people.
The center of gravity will allow us to distribute the payload that means ourselves, on both wings.
Print up a thousand copies and distribute them to our men.
Wouldn't hurt you to distribute a few of those, you know?
Well perhaps you could sort of distribute them along each side.
Oh, I see. You mean distribute them so that they'll carry the weight evenly.
He could easily distribute them among us.
I'll distribute it.
I'll distribute, professor. - Yes.
Distribute the arms and really wage a war?
I distribute shoes.
They think they can distribute pamphlets and gold and a vast monarchist army will materialise overnight.
We are just calculating how to distribute them.
You in the first row please will you distribute these.
Teaching is really an important job, to distribute knowledge.

News and current affairs

It is far wiser to distribute contracts widely and ensure that more Iraqi businesses gain access to credit.
Efforts are underway to research, manufacture, and distribute experimental drugs that could treat the disease.
An energy ministry that decides who can obtain gas at one-fifth of its cost and who cannot is obviously subject to irresistible pressures to distribute its favors to whomever offers the largest bribes or kickbacks.
Moreover, higher house prices and rents distribute income from poorer households (which typically rent) to richer households (which own the houses).
The fact that the existence of exceptional circumstances can now be invoked to distribute the burden of any needed adjustments over more than one year is helpful.
A few months ago, the European Commission tried its hand at resolving this problem with a courageous proposal to distribute refugees across member states according to a simple equation that accounts for population and GDP.
So I offered my services to the local Soviet authority and helped distribute basic foodstuffs to a small number of outlets in our district of Zehlendorf.
Rich countries would buy bed nets from companies that produce them and work with African governments to distribute them free of charge to every African household.
A major new citizens' initiative called Malaria No More is raising private funds to distribute anti-malaria nets.
One simple solution would be to distribute the funds to governments, which could then decide how best to spend them in their countries.
They need access to the grids that distribute electricity, urban transportation, goods, education, health care, security, and finance.
As a result, there are huge disparities among firms in terms of efficiency - and hence in the income they can distribute.
The other problem of modern production is how to distribute the income generated by all of the complementary inputs.
In this context, if markets are characterized by what economists call perfect competition, once the opportunity cost of all inputs has been paid, there is nothing left to distribute.
This gave rise to the first causes of the crisis: the originate-and-distribute model of securitization and the extensive use of leverage.
It also created a more buoyant market for the securities of Freddie and Fannie, feeding the originate-and-distribute machine.
Forty-four Huji members were arrested, two of whom claimed to have been sent from South Africa and Pakistan by Osama Bin Laden to distribute money to the extremist madrassas.
State-owned enterprises will be forced to distribute more of their profits.
Beijing-based NGO's are allying with local Sichuan NGO's to launch Internet campaigns, distribute petitions, and mobilize villagers.
So there are plans afoot to develop and distribute tools to analyze information, discover correlations (data-mining), and display the results as graphs and charts.
This would distribute the responsibility for addressing the refugee crisis over a larger number of states, while helping establish global standards for dealing with the challenge of forced migration.
The same basic idea of allowing the state to distribute gas revenues, although with different intended purposes, is found in their programs.
This includes a joint procedure for judging asylum claims and a mechanism to distribute the refugees among EU countries fairly.

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