verb

• (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
• (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
• (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
• (transitive) To scatter or spread.
• (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
• (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
• (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
• (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
• (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
• (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
• (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.