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  • verb Present participle of redivide.

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Examples

  • Many are calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza; others are backing the 'Jordanian option,' that is, the redividing of the West Bank between Israel and Jordan.

    The Uprising Hertzberg, Arthur 1988

  • Observers say much remains to be done before the poll, including redividing the country into legislative constituencies and performing a nationwide census to ease distribution of voter cards.

    EU Pledges $15 Million for Central African Republic Elections 2010

  • You could practically hear them growing; I imagined the cells dividing and madly redividing with tiny pops, the pace of their metabolism stoked by the abundance of light, heat, and rain.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • Greece formed an alliance against Bulgaria in June 1913 with the goal of redividing the spoils of the First Balkan War, as has been mentioned previously.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • The primary problem is an overwhelming theocracy-cum-Cultural Revolution splitting up families and redividing society in order to do something about the stinkers.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • By the end of the 1990s, a majority of Israelis were considering previously unthinkable concessions such as uprooting Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza and redividing the city of Jerusalem.

    Daimnation!: "Spare us" 2008

  • Leontines, upon the departure of the Athenians from Sicily after the pacification, had placed a number of new citizens upon the roll, and the commons had a design for redividing the land; but the upper classes, aware of their intention, called in the Syracusans and expelled the commons.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • So when we talk about the two-state solution, we're talking about redividing Palestine and to what has officially come to be known as Israel and the territories occupied in 1967, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

    This Side of Peace 1995

  • The dividing and redividing showed well how completely free were the columns from any individual dominance.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • For the most part, indeed, schemes of cancelling debts and redividing lands were never thought of except by men of desperate and selfish ambition, who made them stepping-stones to despotic power.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

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