redistribute

verb
/ˌɹiː.dɪˈstɹɪb.juːt/UK/ˌɹi.dɪˈstɹɪb.jut/US

Etymology

From re- + distribute.

Definitions

  1. To distribute again.

    • Near-synonym: reallocate
    • 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.
    • The AK-47s handed in would then be registered in the database before being redistributed to new units formed as Iraq takes over security control from U.S.-led forces, he said.
  2. To distribute differently.

    • My medicine also redistributed the fat in my body. I went from a size 6 to a size 12 at the top part of my body in two months.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for redistribute. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA