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redistribute

[ree-di-strib-yoot] / ˌri dɪˈstrɪb jut /


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In a speech setting out his pitch to the public, the Makerfield MP said he wanted to redistribute power and resources across the UK.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Now, it is leveraging the potent cocktail of an American World Cup to pack its war chest with money it plans to redistribute to FIFA’s 211 member nations around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

The agency also said it would redistribute $18 million in Drinking Water State Revolving Fund money that had previously been made available to states to address lead, but was never used.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

This movement into lower soil layers is linked not only to the decomposition of organic material but also to biological activity, such as organisms that help break down leaves and redistribute particles.

From Science Daily Mar. 23, 2026

Back in the 1980s, the original stated purpose of the mortgage-backed bond had been to redistribute the risk associated with home mortgage lending.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Another potential catalyst: SK Hynix redistributes 10% of its operating profit in employee bonuses—a practice Samsung is also beginning to adopt.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

Squeezing redistributes this uncertainty by making one property more precise while increasing uncertainty in the other.

From Science Daily May 1, 2026

The food for the larder is donated by the charity FareShare, which redistributes surplus food and diverts it away from landfill.

From BBC Feb. 27, 2026

The monthly Warm and Welcome Wednesday Cafe in Highworth, Wiltshire, has been set up by the volunteers behind Highworth Community Larder, which redistributes food that would otherwise have been thrown away.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2025

Its shape changes utterly as the weight redistributes.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

During the Progressive Era, when party machine politics dominated, judicial elections were put forward as a reform to promote democratic accountability because they broke up concentrations of power and redistributed it to the people.

From Slate Jul. 8, 2026

Petno helped put an end to its stand-alone mergers and acquisitions department and redistributed that team across the bank.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Although the ban has been reversed, tracts were redistributed to people, who were often on collective farms, rather than restored to their original owners and those who lost their land were never compensated.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Ministers also argue that heat generated by huge processing centres could be redistributed into district networks of homes.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2026

The chief’s hut looked like any other hut, there were no bureaucrats or public works, the chief redistributed most goods he received back to the commoners, and land was controlled by the community.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

I’m worried I may not be diversified enough and may fare better selling and redistributing into less risky index funds.

From MarketWatch May 22, 2026

Holocaust Memorial Museum describes the program as a coordinated effort to strip communities of cultural identity while redistributing art through state and black-market channels.

From Salon May 9, 2026

Among older adults, simply redistributing TV time to other daily activities did not significantly change depression rates.

From Science Daily Feb. 12, 2026

In another potential application, a swarm of robots could make deliveries across wide areas more efficient by alerting each other to changing traffic conditions or redistributing packages among themselves if one breaks down.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 1, 2025

In particular, a tribal big-man’s role in dividing the meat of pigs slaughtered for feasts points to the role of chiefs in collecting and redistributing food and goods—now reconstrued as tribute—in chiefdoms.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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