To be distributive.
To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
To supply to retail outlets.
To scatter or spread.
To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
To deliver or pass out.
To divide into portions and dispense.
To classify or separate into categories.
To apportion (more or less evenly).
To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
To displace or take the place of (by having higher precedence, etc).
To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first.
To appropriate first.
To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption (purchasing before others, e.g. land because one already occupies it).
To make a preemptive bid at bridge.
A preemptive bid.