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distribution

[dis-truh-byoo-shuhn] / ˌdɪs trəˈbju ʃən /




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A Treasury official said last month the department was looking at blacklisting entities that provide warehouses and distribution centers to shut down the movement of goods into Iran’s land borders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

He also conducts what he calls a “self-audit” to rid himself of acronyms such as RMD, which stands for required minimum distribution, and QCD for qualified charitable distribution.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

As structured, the deal does not appear to require any public disclosures about pay or distribution of shares to executives.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Starting in 1990 as a transport company, Ravatomanga's Sodiat Group expanded into a sprawling conglomerate spanning automotive distribution, aviation, private security, media, construction, healthcare, real estate, hospitality, tourism and Madagascar's lucrative vanilla trade.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

There was no way of knowing if the distribution had begun three blocks north of them, and no one was willing to leave in order to scout ahead and report on what was happening.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

The bank launched a share buyback program worth 500 million pounds, below the company-compiled consensus of 579 million pounds, bringing year-to-date distributions to 2.8 billion pounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Once they get wind of your required minimum distributions in your early 70s, they will come knocking again.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

On top of that, if the original owner had started taking the required minimum distributions, the IRS also requires annual distributions in years one through nine, not just a single withdrawal in year 10.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

That wouldn’t matter for retirees holding Treasurys inside a tax-deferred retirement account like an IRA, but any distributions would count as income.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The team made complex tables of the letter distributions in these messages.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield


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