(distributes, distributing, distributed)
1.
If you distribute things, you hand them or deliver them to a number of people.
Students shouted slogans and distributed leaflets...
In the move most of the furniture was left to the neighbours or distributed among friends.
VERB: V n, be V-ed among n
2.
When a company distributes goods, it supplies them to the shops or businesses that sell them. (BUSINESS)
We didn't understand how difficult it was to distribute a national paper.
VERB: V n
3.
If you distribute things among the members of a group, you share them among those members.
Immediately after his election he began to distribute major offices among his friends and supporters.
= share out
VERB: V n among n, also V n
4.
To distribute a substance over something means to scatter it over it. (FORMAL)
Distribute the topping evenly over the fruit.
= scatter
VERB: V n over n
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