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English
Etymology
re- + distribute
Pronunciation
- enPR: rē-dĭ-strĭbʹyo͞ot, rē-dĭsʹtrĭb-yo͞ot
- Hyphenation: re‧dis‧trib‧ute
Verb
redistribute (third-person singular simple present redistributes, present participle redistributing, simple past and past participle redistributed)
- (transitive) To distribute again.
- Coordinate term: reassign
- Near-synonym: reallocate
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:And so new friendships were formed, and new enmities, and old friendships preserved, and old enmities. And all was agreement and disagreement and amity and enmity, as before, only redistributed.
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