Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To distribute again in a different way; reallocate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To distribute again; deal back; apportion afresh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To distribute again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
distribute again.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb distribute anew
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Examples
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Better to leave the money in people's pockets than take it, and "redistribute" it back
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It turns out that he wasn't criticizing the Supreme Court for its failure to "redistribute" wealth.
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Huh? Obama is a socialist who wants to "redistribute" wealth, and has wanted to do that since 2000.
McCain Campaign Falsely Claims Obama Described Court's Failure to Redistribute Wealth As "Tragedy" 2009
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Does he think America is so, so worried that HE, John McCain, might have to "redistribute" some of his own wealth (well actually, his wife's) to the middle and working classes of America?
McCain: Obama Is Running To Be "Redistributionist In Chief" 2009
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The largest economic thing it does is "redistribute".
The Case for Killing Textbook Macro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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They're proceeding on the presupposition that the word "redistribute" and its variants are approximately as worrisome as "terrorist."
McCain Campaign Falsely Claims Obama Described Court's Failure to Redistribute Wealth As "Tragedy" 2009
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As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain.
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As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain.
Hullabaloo 2008
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The government is the origin of all profit, so it gets to decide how to "redistribute" it for it believes there is some nefarious method of maldistribution to begin with.
Fact checking the VP debate. Ann Althouse 2008
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He vowed to seize half of Zimbabwe's arable 12 million hectares from some 4,000 white farmers -- who currently hold about 70 percent of such land -- and "redistribute" it to peasants.
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