Usually means: Allocate or spread resources evenly.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word distribute:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. distribute: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. distribute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distribute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distribute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distribute: Vocabulary.com
  6. Distribute, distribute: Wordnik
  7. distribute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. distribute: Wiktionary
  9. distribute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. distribute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. distribute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. distribute: Dictionary.com
  13. distribute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Distribute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. distribute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. distribute: Rhymezone
  17. distribute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. distribute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. distribute: Free Dictionary
  20. distribute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. distribute: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. distribute: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. distribute: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. distribute: Legal dictionary
  5. Distribute: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distribute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distribute: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. distribute: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distribute: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Distribute: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
verb:  (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
verb:  (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
verb:  (transitive) To scatter or spread.
verb:  (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
verb:  (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
verb:  (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
verb:  (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
verb:  (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
verb:  (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
verb:  (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.

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