| 单词 | distributive |
| 释义 | distributive (once / 17774 pages) adj 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. WORD FAMILYdistributive: distributively+/distributary: distributaries/distribute: distributary, distributed, distributer, distributes, distributing, distribution, distributive, distributor, redistribute/distributed: undistributed/distributer: distributers/distribution: distributional, distributions/distributor: distributors/redistribute: redistributed, redistributes, redistributing, redistribution/redistribution: redistributions USAGE EXAMPLESAttempting global distributive justice is a major political problem of moral significance, but really, only governments can approach such utopian ideals. Nature(Jul 19, 2016) She argued that the well-being of women around the world could be improved through universal norms—an international system of distributive justice. The New Yorker(Jul 18, 2016) The Queens native plans to spend the next several years working on “distributive justice” issues beyond health care. Washington Post(May 03, 2016) adj serving to distribute or allot or disperse Syn|Ant allocable, allocatable, apportionable capable of being distributed diffusing, diffusive, dispersive, disseminativespreading by diffusion immanentof qualities that are spread throughout something permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasivespreading or spread throughout separative(of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group suffusivespreading through distributedspread out or scattered about or divided up dividedseparated into parts or pieces collective forming a whole or aggregate agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, clusteredclustered together but not coherent aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, massformed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole collectivised, collectivizedcharacterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production knockdown(furniture) easily assembled and dismantled integrativecombining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole jointunited or combined unitedcharacterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity |
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