DISTRIBUTION

n. 1 apportionment, allotment, allocation, assignment, parcelling or US also parceling out, sharing; deployment She supervised the distribution of the prizes 2 issuance, circulation, dissemination, giving (out), dispersal, dispensation; deployment The distribution of food parcels is being handled by charities 3 arrangement, disposition, grouping, classification, order, ordering, division, cataloguing, codification; deployment: What is the distribution of scientists among the population?