To give out or deliver something to a number of people or places.
“Free tickets will be distributed to the first fifty families who arrive at the event.”
“The committee distributes volunteer shifts evenly across the three weekend days.”
Diagrams about resources, schedules, or duties often describe how tasks or items are distributed among groups or categories. In Part 2, this word can signal a question about which group receives what, so match the distribution rule carefully to the correct row or column in the chart.
Synonyms: allocate, hand out, disperse