distributional
- adjective
- /ˌdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃənl/
- The study examined the distributional patterns of wildlife across different habitats.
- distributional consequences
- distributional issues
- distributional model
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Watch on YouTubeBut these climate policies must also account for, you know, this, this distributional impact.
- But these climate policies must also account for, you know, this, this distributional impact.
Examples
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Developed countries are also unlikely to experience significant distributional problems with unregulated natural monopolies.
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Efficient rules differ with regard to the costs of administration and the distributional implications.
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But these climate policies must also account for, you know, this, this distributional impact.
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But it is nonetheless a cause for concern in that it is creating a distributional problem in the advanced economies.
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However, there are likely to be very strong commercial incentives to resolve such distributional issues.
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Governments often have required water companies to set prices below marginal cost to achieve distributional objectives.
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Unfortunately, many of the statistical methods make important distributional assumptions or use weak nonparametric methods.
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But the long-term structural evolution of the U.S. and global economies suggests that distributional issues will remain.
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Commentators often find the distributional implications of perfect price discrimination to be disagreeable.
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Generally, zones of water availability and salinity are arranged in narrow distributional patterns parallel to the beaches.
Academic text (1993)
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
distributional = distribution (transparent) = distribute + ion + al
The adjective is formed regularly from 'distribution' with '-al', and its meaning is directly related to distribution.
Etymology
Distributional comes from distribute ('to give out') and the related word distribution, which is about how things are shared or spread. So, distributional describes the way items or features are spread across places or areas.