0 to spread or give out something, especially news, information, ideas, etc., to a lot of people:
One of the organization's aims is to disseminate information about the disease.
1 to spread or give out news, information, ideas, etc. to many people:
The purpose of a university press is to disseminate knowledge by publishing books and journals.
2 to spread or give out news, information, ideas, etc., to a lot of people:
There is no clear legal responsibility for businesses to disseminate usable information about their business.
Technology is changing the way in which the government gathers, stores, disseminates, and preserves documents and data.
A great deal of technical information is disseminated, but the tone of the book remains relaxed.
Unlike pharmaceutical products, new interventional procedures may start to disseminate with little published evidence (1).
These scholars rarely consider the opposite-that these writings may not actually be disseminated to the population at large in a manner that is sociopolitically consequential.
Further, one or a few of the foods may have served as a common source of contamination from which the flies disseminated bacteria.
Screening technologies, like other healthcare technologies, are liable to be rapidly disseminated without full consideration of their harms as well as benefits.
For effective change agency, these accounts should be widely disseminated beyond academic venues.
Thus, through such programmes, think tanks are able to disseminate ideas concerning the state while at the same time enhancing their own credibility.
Decades of nationalism disseminated in public addresses, political newspapers and popular histories gave the objects meaning.