Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Faulty distribution or apportionment, as of resources, over an area or among a group.
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- noun bad or undesirable
distribution .
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Examples
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It is not African National Congress policy to nationalise land, but "maldistribution" of land would have to be addressed and there would have to be redistribution, ANC agricultural spokesman Derek Hanekom told the annual congress of the Free
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Pace Max Baucus; this isn't about correcting the "maldistribution" of income.
Propeller Most Popular Stories RTHTGakaRoland 2010
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Pace Max Baucus; this isn't about correcting the "maldistribution" of income.
Propeller Most Popular Stories RTHTGakaRoland 2010
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Pace Max Baucus; this isn't about correcting the "maldistribution" of income.
Propeller Most Popular Stories RTHTGakaRoland 2010
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Pace Max Baucus; this isn't about correcting the "maldistribution" of income.
Propeller Most Popular Stories RTHTGakaRoland 2010
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Pace Max Baucus; this isn't about correcting the "maldistribution" of income.
Propeller Most Popular Stories RTHTGakaRoland 2010
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Pace Max Baucus; this isn't about correcting the "maldistribution" of income.
Propeller Most Popular Stories RTHTGakaRoland 2010
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Pace Max Baucus; this isn't about correcting the "maldistribution" of income.
Propeller Most Popular Stories RTHTGakaRoland 2010
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Another kind of maldistribution is occurring, too.
Slate Magazine 2009
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In the 8 Shrub years, the gap between the bottom and the top incomes increased phenominally (as well as the maldistribution of wealth).
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