All distribute synonyms

verb distribute

• allocate — If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
• disburse — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
• apportion — When you apportion something such as blame, you decide how much of it different people deserve or should be given.
• disseminate — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
• dispense — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
• give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• share — a plowshare.
• give away — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• hand out — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
• administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
• allot — If something is allotted to someone, it is given to them as their share.
• scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
• donate — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
• issue — the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
• assign — If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
• present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
• circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• file — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
• arrange — If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen.
• partition — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
• convey — To convey information or feelings means to cause them to be known or understood by someone.
• deal — If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
• ration — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
• dispose — to give a tendency or inclination to; incline: His temperament disposed him to argue readily with people.
• appropriate — Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
• consign — To consign something or someone to a place where they will be forgotten about, or to an unpleasant situation or place, means to put them there.
• bestow — To bestow something on someone means to give or present it to them.
• prorate — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
• disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
• sow — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
• radiate — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
• strew — to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed.
• diffuse — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
• parcel — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
• divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
• categorize — If you categorize people or things, you divide them into sets or you say which set they belong to.
• assort — to arrange or distribute into groups of the same type; classify
• group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
• class — A class is a group of pupils or students who are taught together.
• cut up — If you cut something up, you cut it into several pieces.
• dish out — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
• mete — to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
• pass out — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• shell out — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
• deal out — If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone.
• fork out — an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
• measure out — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• pay out — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
• give out — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.