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REDISTRIBUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redistribute mean? 

REDISTRIBUTE (verb)
  The verb REDISTRIBUTE has 1 sense:

1. distribute anewplay

  Familiarity information: REDISTRIBUTE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REDISTRIBUTE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they redistribute  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it redistributes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: redistributed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: redistributed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: redistributing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Distribute anew

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

redistribute the troops more strategically

Hypernyms (to "redistribute" is one way to...):

distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

redistribution (distributing again)


 Context examples 


It has been demonstrated that PKA-RIIa dissociates and redistributes from centrosomes at mitosis.

(Centrosome Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The train has been broken up before now, and the carriages redistributed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

NCK2-dependent (SH2 domain) B ephrin signaling increases FAK activity, redistributes paxillin, inhibits focal adhesions, and disassembles F-actin fibers.

(NCK Adaptor Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Further, the new findings show how ocean currents were largely responsible for redistributing the heat between the Northern and Southern hemispheres in a process called the bipolar seesaw.

(Antarctic ice core reveals how sudden climate changes in North Atlantic moved south, NSF)

A thick atmosphere could also help redistribute heat to the dark sides of these tidally locked planets, increasing habitable real estate.

(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)

Climate change seems to be redistributing coral reefs, the same way it is shifting many other marine species, said Nichole Price, a senior research scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and lead author of the paper.

(Coral reefs shifting away from equatorial waters, National Science Foundation)



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