How to Use distributive in a Sentence

distributive

adjective
Definition of distributivenext
  • The state collects the income tax, and doles it out to local government from the distributive fund.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The sale money will help make up for fewer local government distributive fund dollars coming in from the state, Krieger said.
    — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 6 June 2018
  • The second view reframes climate change as a distributive conflict.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2021
  • But nobody should have that power to do that and then be able to exercise distributive, control over the distribution and control over the content too.
    — Eliot Van Buskirk, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2007
  • The report should include the distributive impacts of any new measure, and the use of tax return information is meant to make the regime administrable.
    — Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • In a distributive bargain, one player tries to extract as many concessions from the other without ceding anything in return.
    — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 7 May 2019
  • This is why welfare-state answers to the basic questions about material distributive justice have not calmed our politics.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 17 July 2019
  • Or does the distributive property suddenly no longer apply?
    — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2019
  • Thursday, Aidan and I spent an hour arguing about the distributive property for math, and another conjugating hablar for Spanish.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • That included the number of staff positions, mail sent to their constituents, trips home, earmarks and other distributive spending, bill sponsorship and co-sponsorship, among others.
    — Danny Hayes, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The entire operation allowed students to have a strong visual and hands-on experience for learning the distributive property.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2021
  • But in 1960, the Russian mathematician Anatoly Karatsuba found a new limit, using his own application of the distributive law to find a more efficient way to multiply.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2019
  • A non-Equity theater, Broken Nose is more egalitarian in its distributive systems.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
  • Opening the world’s borders would be an act of revenue-generating humanitarianism—a form of laissez-faire global distributive justice, on the order of seventy-five trillion dollars a year.
    — Zoey Poll, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
  • He was highly regarded as one of the most talented midfielders of his generation, with his impressive distributive skills underpinning his playing style.
    — SI.com, 9 July 2019
  • Most negotiations can be characterized as either distributive, or integrative.
    — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 7 May 2019

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