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distribution

Distribution is sending or giving out things to several people, companies, places, etc. The distribution of the mail was slowed by the snow storm. The increase in profits was followed by a cash distribution to the investors. Distribution is the way that things are spread (often used in statistics). The distribution of the new iPad was very fast because Apple had invested a lot on advertisement. The distribution of power in the company is very narrow, with just a few managers controlling almost everything. The test scores averaged 50% and had a normal distribution.

distribution

(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume worldwide in distribution the distribution of nerve fibers in complementary distribution the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

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We must draw attention to the distribution of this form in those dialects.
Patterns of freeze-up and breakup influence the distribution and number of seals, the polar bear's main prey.
The distribution of the ballots took ten minutes.
Mexico is experiencing unprecedented violence as drug cartels are battling over distribution routes.

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Well, we have an ordinance prohibiting the distribution of handbills without the prior approval of town council. You're not serious, are you?
At the distribution center, an unpleasant discovery was made.
I got distribution of my own.
The Headquarter wishes Merry Christmas and orders the distribution of chocolate and grappa.
Distribution has already been arranged in the normal manner.
Of course! Darwin theory applies to Man's evolution and not to his distribution among the planets.
A precise distribution of certain weights.
And the distribution?
All distribution of the anti-radiation drug is to be stopped immediately.
Has the anti-radiation drug distribution been stopped?
Distribution of Red China narcotics in the United States: Two million three hundred thousand dollars.
I'll first discuss shaving cream distribution outlets in North American market.
Let me begin by acknowledging what has become axiomatic in the field of shaving cream distribution, namely that shaving cream, indeed almost all personal hygiene products for men are what we call fashion resistant.
The illegal manufacture and distribution of these drugs. is dangerous and can have fatal consequences.
In that lecture he wanted to show the first map of the distribution of hydrogen clouds in the Galaxy.
We made a three dimensional map of the distribution of hydrogen gas in the Galaxy.
When it comes to distribution, don't worry.
You know he believes in equal distribution of wealth.
His packaging, distribution, sales, and strong and weak market areas.
Mr. And Mrs. Howard Ebbets, and as such, I set the hearing for distribution of the Lagerlof will to take place in probate court tomorrow at 9:30 a.m.
Train schedules, movement of people and goods, electricity distribution, suppression of crime, war operations.
Start distribution immediately.
From here, it looks like Steve Grayson is having handling problems. or something is wrong with the weight distribution.
Every penny available to you - for distribution.
The man you're looking at is Lewis Parma who by extortion, kidnapping and murder is coming close to taking control of the food distribution industry for the entire United States.
Well, your basic problems in this case are purchasing and distribution.
Now, if they could centralize their purchasing and their distribution-- like use one camp as a depot-- then they wouldn't have a problem.
Then I package them and get them ready for distribution to all the hungry kids in the yard the next day.
The leaflets will be ready for distribution from tomorrow Mr Wainwright.
The female section of our Party is organizing a charity distribution for disaster victims in the slums.
For the out basket, Distribution A.
Begin the distribution!
We shall start the distribution of these goods first thing in the morning.
A precise distribution of weights, that's the key, isn't it?
Get as many as you can carry and give them to Sham for distribution.
The greatest site was of course the distribution of plastic bowls, hot out of a big machine --and one of the greatest perplexities, of course: the Contemporary Art Expo.
Fear will make us feel more alive, and noble ideals will be pulverised and tinned, ready for distribution to the brainwashed masses.

News and current affairs

A policy for European food systems would treat production, processing, distribution, logistics, and retailing in combination.
Developing nations are grasping just how outrageous the current distribution of greenhouse-gas emissions really is.
Humanitarian aid is being delivered, but a distribution system safe from the predations of Afghanistan's warlords needs to be built.
That would widen the wage distribution, create jobs, and maintain the living standard of the poor.
I have likened the distribution of power in politics today as analogous to a three-dimensional chess game.
The new unilateralists who dominated Bush's first administration made the mistake of thinking that the unipolar distribution of power in the military context was sufficient to guide foreign policy.
The structural anti-Americanism arising from the global distribution of power was evident well before the Iraq war, in the opposition to American-led globalization during the Clinton years.
But the fundamental problem remains the lopsided distribution of power in the international system.
A smoother international distribution of power, even in a global system that is less than fully democratic, would pose fewer temptations to abandon the prudent exercise of power.
But they cannot fail to notice that the processes they support undercut their own position by rendering the wealth gap more obvious and the fairness of the actual global distribution more questionable.
Unfortunately, neither the resources - hundreds of millions of dollars annually - nor the infrastructure for distribution are available.
Its topography and ethnic distribution are generating autonomist and even secessionist forces that threaten national unity in more menacing ways than anywhere else.
Indeed, neither the Chicago School nor the MIT School say that market outcomes are fair, because actual market outcomes depend on the initial distribution of resources.
If that distribution was unfair, current and future outcomes will be unfair, too.
Since Ronald Reagan became President in 1981, America's budget system has been geared to supporting the accumulation of vast wealth at the top of the income distribution.
These powerful forces, many of which operate anonymously under US law, are working relentlessly to defend those at the top of the income distribution.
The US Census Bureau estimates the money income that households receive from all sources and identifies the income level that divides the top and bottom halves of the distribution.
Golden Rice offers the potential to make contributions to human health and welfare as monumental as the discovery and distribution of the Salk polio vaccine.
If this is financed by cutbacks elsewhere in the budget, the main consequence will be only a re-distribution of government spending, which is not necessarily inflationary.

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