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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
redistribute
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
income
▪ Public policy should redistribute income and subsidise, if not deliver directly, essential services such as education and health.
▪ Ethically, it is impossible to redistribute income intentionally in a developing country to see if civil strife erupts.
▪ The Conservatives' taxation and benefit policies have redistributed income from the poor to the rich.
▪ Not quite so obviously, they want to redistribute income from those with more to those with less.
▪ An alternative is that in which government takes much greater action to redistribute income.
land
▪ He said it would redistribute the land to the squatters and other poor black people.
wealth
▪ Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.
▪ There is a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor.
■ VERB
want
▪ Not quite so obviously, they want to redistribute income from those with more to those with less.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Taxes are a way of redistributing income for the welfare of the whole society.
▪ The socialists are committed to redistributing wealth.
▪ The tax will be collected nationally and the money raised will be redistributed to local authorities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And some wealth is going to get redistributed.
▪ Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.
▪ Public policy should redistribute income and subsidise, if not deliver directly, essential services such as education and health.
▪ The optimal tariff increases welfare only marginally, its main effect being to redistribute welfare from farmers to government.
▪ The scramble to redistribute existing resources and clients provides the conditions for the development of schemes such as the duty solicitor.
▪ The tribute that poured into the temple store-rooms, dedicated variously to deities and sanctuaries, had to be recorded and redistributed.
▪ These gifts would then be redistributed to the poor, either individually or collectively.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redistribute

Redistribute \Re`dis*trib"ute\ (-tr?b"?t), v. t. To distribute again. [1913 Webster] -- Re*dis`tri*bu"tion (-tr?*b?"sh?n), n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
redistribute

1610s, from re- "back, again" + distribute. Related: Redistributed; redistributing.

Wiktionary
redistribute

vb. to distribute again.

WordNet
redistribute

v. distribute anew; "redistribute the troops more strategically"

Usage examples of "redistribute".

The shwpi have overgrazed the world, allowing the storms to pick up and redistribute a lot of soil through wind erosion.

The tree was working bravely to redistribute mass, but the unassimilated treasure trove still caused a wobble in the crown that took some getting used to.

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He once said be would stop at nothing to redistribute the balance of power back to Earth, even if it meant the ruin of Heras 6.

The shwpi have overgrazed the world, allowing the storms to pick up and redistribute a lot of soil through wind erosion.

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In a desperate effort to save the firm, Herb had taken a huge position in the EasySlim Corporation, manufacturers of a caplet designed to liquefy body fat, so it could be redistributed from, say, thighs to breasts.

You see, power is being redistributed, and there will be a great deal of resistance, of course.

Cholayna dosed her with salicylates from the medikit, while Magda and Camilla repacked the loads to redistribute weight and Jaelle went out to search the terrain for any signs of the passage of the other women.

Goods in excess of an individual’s needs must be transferred from the individual to a centralized authority, which then redistributes the goods to individuals with deficits.

We'll take them aboard Bremerton and the carriers for now and redistribute later.

They also redistributed the lighter items from the sleds of the galled teams to ease their burden, and Red himself made certain that all harnesses were flexible enough and fitted perfectly.

The organization of food importers were arguing about redistributing territory, and while Chloe had a great fondness for lamb and oranges and a well-cooked chicken, there was a limit to her fascination.

In the old days before the spread of mass culture, it was a common practice for unscrupulous filmmakers to hack up old films to accord with market trends and redistribute them under different names.

To gather and redistribute data efficiently and effectively was, to him, the epitome of the military intelligence field.