- (v.i.) To pass from place to place, from person to person or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.
- (v.t.) To cause to pass from place to place or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.
- (v.i.) To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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