{
    "term": "distribute",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "distribute",
            "heSheIt": "distributes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "distributed",
        "pastParticiple": "distributed",
        "ingForm": "distributing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to give things to a large number of people; to share something between a number of people or groups",
            "sensetop": "distribute somethingdistribute something to somebody/somethingdistribute something among somebody/somethingdistribute something between somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The leaflets have been **widely distributed**.",
                    "contextForm": "distribute something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The newspaper is distributed free."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to distribute fliers/pamphlets/questionnaires"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Viruses are often distributed via email."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The organization distributed food to the earthquake victims.",
                    "contextForm": "distribute something to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The money was distributed among schools in the area.",
                    "contextForm": "distribute something among somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The proceeds will be distributed between local charities.",
                    "contextForm": "distribute something between somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Copies of the book were distributed free to each school in the district."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We distributed the money equally among the team members."
                },
                {
                    "text": "distributing aid to people in need"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The participants were randomly distributed into three groups."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["equally", "fairly", "unequally"],
                "preposition": ["among", "between", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to send goods to shops and businesses so that they can be sold",
            "sensetop": "distribute something (+ adv./prep.)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Who distributes our products in the UK?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their trademark jeans enjoyed immediate success and were soon distributed worldwide."
                },
                {
                    "text": "nationally distributed brands of fruit juice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Plastika’ distributes our products in the UK."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cheese is imported and distributed exclusively by Norland Inc."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hood distributes dairy products throughout the United States."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["internationally", "nationally", "exclusively"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to spread something, or different parts of something, over an area",
            "sensetop": "be distributed + adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Make sure your weight is **evenly distributed**.",
                    "contextForm": "be distributed + adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Cases of the disease are **widely distributed** through Europe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Generous workspaces must be well distributed throughout the library."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plant is globally distributed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The trend is broadly distributed and not just a big-city phenomenon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are over 35 000 species of orchid distributed throughout the world."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Wealth is not evenly distributed between age groups."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["evenly", "uniformly", "unevenly"],
                "preposition": ["across", "among", "between"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːt//ˈdɪstrɪbjuːt/",
                "audio": "di/distribute/distribute__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːts//ˈdɪstrɪbjuːts/",
                "audio": "di/distribute/distributes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪd//ˈdɪstrɪbjuːtɪd/",
                "audio": "di/distribute/distributed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪŋ//ˈdɪstrɪbjuːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/distribute/distributing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːt/",
                "audio": "di/distribute/distribute__us_1_rr.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːts/",
                "audio": "di/distribute/distributes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪd/",
                "audio": "di/distribute/distributed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/distribute/distributing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin distribut- ‘divided up’, from the verb distribuere, from dis- ‘apart’ + tribuere ‘assign’."
}