distribution

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 87.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
2. noun An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
3. noun The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
4. noun Anything distributed; portion; share.
5. noun The result of distributing; arrangement.
6. noun The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

   The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.

7. noun The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
8. noun The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

   The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.

Similar words

dispersion apportionment apportioned dist apportioning distribute distributive share redistributive allocation

Often followed by

of and in is to function for system with

Word family

disestablish disestablished disestablishes disestablishing disestablishment dissimilar distribute distributed distributing distributional