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dispersal

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++di·sper·sal /dɪˈspɜːsəl $ -ɜːr-/ noun [countable, uncountable]  SPREADthe process of spreading things over a wide area or in different directions 散发,散布;传播 the role of birds in the dispersal of seeds 鸟类对传播种子的作用
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dispersalThe women were on the whole surprised at the question, apparently assuming that a dispersal of concentration is intrinsic to housework.No doubt, as they are established, the pressures for dispersal are fewer.Our goal is a wider geographic dispersal of economic aid.Some details of the mechanisms of dispersal of such imported goods can be obtained by a more detailed examination of their distributions.The second phase would be carried out by the dispersal of nurses and psychologists into general practice surgeries and day hospitals.The lightning spread of the pentecostal movement was not like the dispersal of some new idea.By the late 1970s, however, some elements of this dispersal had in turn been reversed.
di·sper·sal nounChineseSyllable
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dispersal
dispersal /dɪˈspɜːsəl $ -ɜːr-/ noun [uncountable and countable]
the process of spreading things over a wide area or in different directions:
    the role of birds in the dispersal of seeds


dis·pers·alBrE /dɪˈspɜːsl/ 🔊NAmE /dɪˈspɜːrsl/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable] (formal) the process of sending sb/sth in different directions; the process of spreading sth over a wide area 分散;疏散;散布police trained in crowd dispersal在疏散人群方面受过训练的警察the dispersal of seeds种子的传播