distributes

verb

(transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.

(transitive) To deliver or pass out.

(transitive) To supply to retail outlets.

(transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).

(transitive) To scatter or spread.

(transitive) To classify or separate into categories.

(business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.

(intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.

(printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.

(printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.

(logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

Roots

tribuotribut- · Latin · grant, allot

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