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verb give sth out ADV. equally, fairly | unequally | widely The leaflets have been widely distributed. | free Copies of the book were distributed free to each school in the district. PREP. among We distributed the money equally among the team members. | between, to distributing aid to people in need spread sth ADV. evenly, uniformly Wealth is not evenly distributed between age groups. | unevenly | randomly Smokers were randomly distributed in the sample interviewed. | patchily, sparsely PREP. among, between, throughout There are over 35,000 species of orchid distributed throughout the world.
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