redistribute

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English

Etymology

re- +‎ distribute

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rē-dĭ-strĭbʹyo͞ot, IPA(key): /ˌɹiːdɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/
  • Hyphenation: re‧dis‧trib‧ute

Verb

redistribute (third-person singular simple present redistributes, present participle redistributing, simple past and past participle redistributed)

  1. (transitive) To distribute again.
    • 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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