distributive
distributive Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Concerned with the supply and allocation of goods, resources, or wealth among individuals or businesses.
"Philosophers have long debated the principles of distributive justice in a fair society."
Relating to a mathematical property in which an operation applied to a combination of terms yields the same result as applying the operation to each term individually and then combining the results.
"Students learn to use the distributive property of multiplication over addition to simplify algebraic expressions."
Referring to each individual member of a group separately rather than to the group as a whole (in grammar and logic).
"In English grammar, words such as 'each' and 'every' function as distributive determiners."
• noun
A grammatical word, such as 'each', 'every', or 'either', that refers to individual members of a group separately rather than collectively.
"When a singular distributive is used as the subject of a clause, it typically takes a singular verb."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French 'distributif' or directly from Late Latin 'distributivus', derived from the Latin verb 'distribuere' ('to divide, distribute').