distribute
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(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone" |
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Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
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Related Words: allot, apply, assign, deal, give, give, portion |
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(verb) make available; "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia" |
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Related Words: issue, reticulate, supply, transfer |
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(verb) distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country" |
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Synonyms: spread |
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Related Words: deploy, diffuse, discharge, fan out, generalize, metastasize, propagate, redistribute, sprawl, spread, spread out, straggle, straw, strew |
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(verb) give out freely |
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Synonyms: give away, give out, hand out |
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Related Words: apportion, deal, divvy up, gift, give, portion out, present, share |
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(verb) to arrange in a stack or pile; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall" |
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Synonyms: stack, stagger |
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Related Words: arrange, set up |
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(verb) as of information |
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Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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Related Words: air, bandy about, bare, carry, popularize, publicise, publicize, run, sough, sow, vulgarize |
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(verb) cause to be distributed; "This letter is circulating among the faculty" |
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Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
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Related Words: displace, move, scatter, send around, spread, spread out, utter |
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