Definition of "distribute"

distribute

/dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/

verb
third-person singular simple present distributes, present participle distributing, simple past and past participle distributed
1. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
2. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
3. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
  Quotations
  Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
  1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714
4. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
5. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
6. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
7. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
8. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
9. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
10. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
  Quotations
  A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to.
  1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
11. (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.