Translate distribute | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of distribute
verb
[with object] 1give shares of (something); deal out:information leaflets are being distributed to hotels and guest houses supply (goods) to stores and other businesses that sell to consumers:the journal is distributed worldwide (
be distributed)
occur throughout an area:the birds are mainly distributed in marshes and river valleys Printing separate (metal type that has been set up) and return the characters to their separate compartments in a type case.
2 Logic use (a term) to include every individual of the class to which it refers:the middle term must be distributed, at least once, in the premises