redistribution
a distribution performed again or anew.
Economics. the theory, policy, or practice of lessening or reducing inequalities in income through such measures as progressive income taxation and antipoverty programs.
Origin of redistribution
1Other words from redistribution
- re·dis·tri·bu·tion·al, re·dis·trib·u·to·ry [ree-di-strib-yuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], /ˌri dɪˈstrɪb yəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjective
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How to use redistribution in a sentence
The process includes coordination of temperature-controlled shipment and delivery of the vaccine, storage in ultracold conditions, redistribution to other health care facilities and scheduling vaccination clinics.
Coronavirus caseload average sets another record in Washington region | Rachel Chason, Jenna Portnoy | January 7, 2021 | Washington PostUltimately, it’s a change in the IRS’ mission toward redistribution, not just raising revenue.
Millions Still Haven’t Gotten Stimulus Checks, Including Many Who Need Them Most | by Lydia DePillis | October 30, 2020 | ProPublicaThat redistribution combined with weakened viewership is increasing the competition for what inventory is available in the scatter market.
‘You have to be more nimble’: How advertisers are adapting to a mixed-up fourth-quarter TV market | Tim Peterson | October 19, 2020 | DigidayWe see over and over again that there is a redistribution of wealth, and it is just upward.
One way to think about it is this pre distribution and redistribution.
Writer Anand Giridharadas on tech’s billionaires: “Are they even on the same team as us?” | Connie Loizos | September 25, 2020 | TechCrunch
Instead, almost every state has featured a redistribution of political power from the rural to the urban.
Most Americans support redistribution to one degree or another.
redistribution happens because redistributionist politicians have the nasty habit of getting elected.
Now, however, they see it as an attack on the “dignity of work,” and an unjust form of “redistribution.”
He calls for reforms that make finance subservient to industry and for the redistribution of wealth.
Pope Francis Declares Consumers and Capitalists Need to Help the Poor | Daniel Gross | November 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe redistribution of Seats Act 1885 made a new division of the country into county and borough constituencies.
He must in fact have seen that there is a redistribution of plastic material in each section of bark.
He even went as far as to talk about load redistribution electric control design.
What Need of Man? | Harold CalinFifteen small clauses might settle the redistribution, in spite of Mr. Turnbull,—if only Mr. Daubeny would be good-natured.
Phineas Finn | Anthony TrollopeThe system of periodical redistribution had in the meantime fallen into desuetude.
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British Dictionary definitions for redistribution
/ (ˌriːdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃən) /
the act or instance of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed again
(in Canada) a periodic revision of the number of seats in the House of Commons, made to reflect changes in population
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Cultural definitions for redistribution
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