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verb

distribute

CEFR B1

to give shares of something to multiple recipients

In a sentence

Six example sentences with distribute, each labelled with its topic.

  • Volunteers distribute two thousand saplings to households along the river, one bundle per address, before the planting season ends.

    Environment

  • The server will distribute the event rewards to every account that logged a match, sending each player the same three crates.

    Gaming

  • Partners agreed to distribute the year's profit among the eleven offices according to how many clients each one signed.

    Finance

  • The host will distribute the roast so that every guest gets a slice of the crisp end as well as the tender middle.

    Cooking

  • The will instructs the executor to distribute the estate equally among the four grandchildren once the house is sold.

    Law

  • The company will distribute the year-end bonus to every employee, with the same amount going to the warehouse and the boardroom.

    Business

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