to distribute
- verb
- /dɪˈstrɪbjuːt/
- The survey instruments were distributed in a classroom setting by the course instructor.
- distribute food
- distribute resources
- distribute questionnaires
Essentially, you can distribute that single file to the entire group.
- Essentially, you can distribute that single file to the entire group.
- No, that was being distributed by Curtis, which distributed Saturday Evening Post.
- Write as many topics as possible, but distribute them through the chart, Right?
- How do you distribute your content across the web?
- Markets distribute goods, market set prices.
- What's Hunter Biden's Wi-Fi password who distributed spoons to the gazpacho police?
- Let's just, let's just, you know, let taxpayers all distribute the the the cost.
Examples
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How do you distribute your content across the web?
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Ask the Faculty Development office to prepare and distribute stress management materials to all faculty.
Academic text (1991) -
Essentially, you can distribute that single file to the entire group.
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And with that in mind, I'm going to distribute your report cards.
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Captain, the people are saying the food the King ordered us to distribute is rotten.
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Their network of 200 food banks are up and running... distributing food to people and communities they serve... across the country.
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I distribute patients to more than a dozen private research facilities all across the Eastern seaboard.
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Between 1954 and 1982, the department distributed Indian News to First Nations communities across Canada.
Academic text (2017) -
The study questionnaires were distributed to all the social workers in each organization sampled.
Academic text (2008) -
The volunteers worked together to distribute food and supplies to the homeless during the winter storm.
Synonyms
To put a thin layer over a surface
To give out cards or other things to people
To spread small things like leaves or seeds over an area without order
To give something to people in a group
To hand things to several people
Give something like medicine or a test, often in a formal way
To cause people and things, like a crowd or fog, to spread over a wide area
Give parts of something, like money or time, to people for a planned purpose
To give things to people in a group, like papers or drinks
To spread out and reach many people or places
To give small amounts of something to several people over time
To give a part of something to someone for a specific use
Hand something to each person in a group
To give out things to several people, often food or advice
To arrange or unfold things so they cover a larger area
To give medicine or other things to people at a pharmacy
To share something among a group of people
Share things or money between several people
To divide something and give parts to different people or groups
Give a copy of something to each person in a group, for example by email
To give things to several people, often one by one, like cards
To give parts of something to different people
To divide something into parts and give each part to different people
To divide something into parts and give each part to different people
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Etymology
Distribute comes from the Latin parts dis- 'apart' and tribuere 'to give', and it is like contribute or tribute which also talk about giving. So to distribute something is to 'give out' or share parts among people.