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Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: disseminare, from seminare 'to plant seed'

disseminate

 verb
     
Related topics: Communications
dis‧sem‧i‧nate [transitive] formal
TC to spread information or ideas to as many people as possible:
Her findings have been widely disseminated.
—dissemination noun [uncountable]
the dissemination of information
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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