circulate

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
circulate/ˈsɜːkjəleɪt/

▶verb

• 1 move or cause to move continuously or freely through a closed area.

  ■ move around a social function and talk to many people.

• 2 pass or cause to pass from place to place or person to person.

– derivatives
circulative adjective,
circulator noun.

– origin C15 (as an alchemical term meaning ‘distil something, allowing condensed vapour to return to the original liquid’): from L. circulat-, circulare ‘move in a circular path’, from circulus (see circle).