Explore Distributive through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like permeating or immanent. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Distributive in a sentence
Distributive meaning
- Relating to distribution.
- Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
- A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
Synonyms of Distributive
Using Distributive
- The main meaning on this page is: Relating to distribution. | Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each. | A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
- Useful related words include: allocable, permeative, permeating, permeant.
- In the example corpus, distributive often appears in combinations such as: distributive justice, of distributive, and distributive.
Context around Distributive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Distributive
- In this selection, "distributive" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, plural, cbi, left, justice, plural and negotiation stand out and add context to how "distributive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a distributive negotiation often and director of distributive services. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "distributive" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with distributive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This was totally unexpected today, said Van Daele, director of distributive services. (12 words)
But division is not left-distributive, i.e. we have : unlike multiplication. (12 words)
Both replication and duplication can keep the data current in all distributive locations. (13 words)
But his book understates the horrible truth that divine help is not just needed for the Supreme Court and Parliament, but Indian governance and democracy, too, with its chaotic existence and lack of distributive justice. (35 words)
Wealth concentration in a few hands, lack of distributive justice in economic policies and corruption seem to have frustrated the desire to relieve a much bigger number in the population from the pains of poverty. (35 words)
A third alternative is a construction of the form "Jack's children and Jill's", which is always distributive, i.e. it designates the combined set of Jack's children and Jill's children. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Distributive plural Distributive plural number, for many instances viewed as independent individuals (for example, in Navajo ).
Finally, UK retail sales declined in June after rising in May, and retail outlets anticipate another drop next month, the CBI Distributive Trades Survey showed on Wednesday.
Humanistic management aligns with the Philippine Constitution’s mandate for businesses to contribute to the common good and distributive justice.
Likewise, “The principle of ‘distributive’ justice suggests that we should have a special concern for the poor and vulnerable.
Even the Doubting Trump help cushion the effects of the Pandemic in terms of distributive palliatives to American citizens and denizens.
This is also something that the social sciences teach us: distributive conflicts cut cross national solidarities or the lack of them.
This was totally unexpected today, said Van Daele, director of distributive services.
But his book understates the horrible truth that divine help is not just needed for the Supreme Court and Parliament, but Indian governance and democracy, too, with its chaotic existence and lack of distributive justice.
These entities already interact with the distributive trade and manufacturing sector extensively and daily.
Wealth concentration in a few hands, lack of distributive justice in economic policies and corruption seem to have frustrated the desire to relieve a much bigger number in the population from the pains of poverty.
Addition and subtraction are defined by the addition and subtraction of corresponding coefficients and multiplication is distributive over addition.
A distributive negotiation often involves people who have never had a previous interactive relationship, nor are they likely to do so again in the near future.
A third alternative is a construction of the form "Jack's children and Jill's", which is always distributive, i.e. it designates the combined set of Jack's children and Jill's children.
Both replication and duplication can keep the data current in all distributive locations.
But division is not left-distributive, i.e. we have : unlike multiplication.
Distributive bargainers conceive of negotiation as a process of distributing a fixed amount of value.
Distributive justice theorists generally do not answer questions of who has the right to enforce a particular favored distribution.
Distributive justice was said by Aristotle to require that people were distributed goods and assets according to their merit.
However, as P. J. Kelly argued in Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: Jeremy Bentham and the Civil Law, Bentham had a theory of justice that prevented such consequences.
It is a set of techniques that attempts to improve the quality and likelihood of negotiated agreement by providing an alternative to traditional distributive negotiation techniques.
Common combinations with distributive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- distributive justice 10×
- of distributive 8×
- and distributive 3×
- is distributive 3×
- distributive over 3×
- distributive plural 2×
- the distributive 2×
- distributive negotiation 2×
- in distributive 2×
- distributive and 2×