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DISTRIBUTIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does distributive mean?
• DISTRIBUTIVE (adjective)
The adjective DISTRIBUTIVE has 1 sense:
1. serving to distribute or allot or disperse
Familiarity information: DISTRIBUTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Serving to distribute or allot or disperse
Similar:
allocable; allocatable; apportionable (capable of being distributed)
diffusing; diffusive; dispersive; disseminative (spreading by diffusion)
immanent (of qualities that are spread throughout something)
permeant; permeating; permeative; pervasive (spreading or spread throughout)
separative ((of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group)
suffusive (spreading through)
Also:
distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)
divided (separated into parts or pieces)
Antonym:
collective (forming a whole or aggregate)
Derivation:
distribute (give to several people)
Context examples
To say the truth, I had conceived a few scruples with relation to the distributive justice of princes upon those occasions.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Ultraviolet light-induced DNA damage causes a transient immobilization of ERCC4/ERCC1 due to engagement of the complex in a single repair event after assembly of individual nucleotide excision repair factors at sites of DNA damage in a distributive fashion.
(DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-4, NCI Thesaurus)
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