0 past simple and past participle of circulate
1 to go around or through something, or to make something go around or through something:
The university administration circulated a memo, requiring faculty to take attendance for the rest of the week.
In actuality, inferior coins circulated within a limited locality sustained the local monetary market.
The diverse coinage and bills of credit that circulated earlier had served to confirm the political boundaries of the states.
The black dirham, which often bears the name of the local bedouin ruler, was circulated exclusively in local markets.
Drafts of the papers first circulated among the authors.
More work is also needed on how the wartime and post-war plans circulated, and how they were consumed.
Indeed, they estimate that over a third of a million electoral broadsides were circulated to the local population during the period.
No less ironically, the accounts which they circulated to advertise the efficacy of approved types of sacramental may inadvertently have promoted their unauthorized use.
