circulates

To circulate something is to send it around or to share it with a lot of people. When you circulate a document, you make copies of it and distribute them to as many people as possible.

  • The document was circulated to all the employees.

  • The magazine is circulating a new issue to all of its subscribers.

Definition of circulates

verb

cause to be distributed

Synonyms:

distribute, pass around, pass on

verb

cause to become widely known

Synonyms:

broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread

verb

become widely known and passed on

Synonyms:

go around, spread

verb

cause to move in a circuit or system

verb

move around freely from person to person or from place to place

verb

move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point

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Example Sentences for circulates

  • 1

    It is to go round to circulate.

  • 2

    Is the circulation of the publication relevant

  • 3

    The police circulated the city.

  • 4

    The wolves circulated the town.

  • 5

    These circulated alongside the issues.

  • 6

    He theorized a circulation of the blood.

  • 7

    Circulation is irrelevant to the quality of the journalism.

  • 8

    The bimonthly circulation for the magazine is 326,000.

  • 9

    The blood circulates a physical body.

  • 10

    The circulation doubled in the first year.