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undistributed en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English distributed English undistributed From un- + distributed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not distributed.
    • By keeping the profits undistributed in the partnership they remained free of UK tax. 2009 February 4, Tax gap reporting team, “Seeing double: Tax avoidance scheme allegedly used by UK ads agency”, in The Guardian:
  2. (not-comparable) Not employing the technique of distributed computing.
    • When I got there, Wall St. was indeed backward, mainframed and undistributed. 2012, Emanuel Derman, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance: