After a Treasury auction, there will be many new issues in dealer's hands. As those issues are sold, it is said that they are distributed. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20047
(in distinctive feature analysis) characterized by relatively extensive contact or constriction between the articulating organs, as the (sh) in show in contrast to the (s) in so. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/distributed