distributive
Distributive is an adjective describing the dispensing or doling out of things. In the winter during cold season, a teacher becomes a distributive source of facial tissue for all the students.
The word distributive may come from the late Latin distributivus, which means "divided up." Distributive has another meaning, which concerns the sales of goods to companies or consumers. For example, if stores run out of pink sweaters for a month while more pink sweaters sit idle in warehouses, the pink sweater industry probably has a distributive problem.
Definitions of distributive
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serving to distribute or allot or disperse
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Synonyms:
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allocable, allocatable, apportionable
capable of being distributed
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diffusing, diffusive, dispersive, disseminative
spreading by diffusion
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immanent
of qualities that are spread throughout something
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permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive
spreading or spread throughout
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separative
(of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
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suffusive
spreading through
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distributed
spread out or scattered about or divided up
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divided
separated into parts or pieces
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Antonyms:
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collective
forming a whole or aggregate
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agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered
clustered together but not coherent
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aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass
formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
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collectivised, collectivized
characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production
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knockdown
(furniture) easily assembled and dismantled
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integrative
combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole
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joint
united or combined
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united
characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity
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allocable, allocatable, apportionable
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