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distribution Noun 1. the delivering of leaflets, mail, etc., to individual people or organizations 2. the sharing out of something among a particular group 3. the arrangement or spread of anything over an area, space, or period of time: the unequal distribution of wealth 4. Commerce the process of satisfying the demand for goods and services
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distribution noun 2. Economics sharing, division, assignment, rationing, allocation, partition, allotment, dispensation, apportionment noun 3. spreading, circulation, diffusion, scattering, propagation, dissemination, dispersal, dispersion 1. The arrangement of troops for any purpose, such as a battle, march, or maneuver. 2. A planned pattern of projectiles about a point. 3. A planned spread of fire to cover a desired frontage or depth. 4. An official delivery of anything, such as orders or supplies. 5. The operational process of synchronizing all elements of the logistic system to deliver the "right things" to the "right place" at the "right time" to support the geographic combatant commander. 6. The process of assigning military personnel to activities, units, or billets. TranslationsHow to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. Above all things, order, and distribution, and singling out of parts, is the life of dispatch; so as the distribution be not too subtle: for he that doth not divide, will never enter well into business; and he that divideth too much, will never come out of it clearly. The gentle master stevedore had his hands very full at last; and the chief mate became worried in his mind as to the proper distribution of the weight of his first cargo in a ship he did not personally know before. |
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