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English

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Etymology

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From re- +‎ direct.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛkt

Verb

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redirect (third-person singular simple present redirects, present participle redirecting, simple past and past participle redirected)

  1. (transitive) To give new direction to, change the direction of.
    redirect output to /dev/null
    • 2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 27 April 2022:
      The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.
  2. (transitive) To instruct to go, inquire, elsewhere.
  3. (computing, transitive) To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.
  4. (computing) To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer.
    You will be redirected shortly.

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Noun

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redirect (plural redirects)

  1. A redirection.
  2. (law) An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination, re-examination.
  3. (computing) The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.
    • 2025 May 22, Anil Dash, “Important Changes are Coming to Glitch”, in Glitch‎[2], archived from the original on 15 August 2025:
      On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. Your Glitch dashboard will remain available as usual through the end of 2025, with access to download all of your code for your projects, as well as a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains so your URLs keep working.

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  • (legal): redirect examination

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