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distribution definition - finance
  1. The payment of dividends to shareholders.
  2. The payment of capital gains to mutual fund shareholders.
  3. A company spinning off the shares of another company that it owns or a partial interest in one of its business units.
  4. The ability of an institution to sell new equity or debt issues of a corporation to its clients.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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