redistribute
English
editEtymology
editFrom re- + distribute.
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: rē-dĭ-strĭbʹyo͞ot, rē-dĭsʹtrĭb-yo͞ot
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɹiː.dɪˈstɹɪb.juːt/, /ˌɹiːˈdɪs.tɹɪb.juːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɹi.dɪˈstɹɪb.jut/
Audio (Connecticut): (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɹiː.dɪˈstɹɪb.juːt/, /ˌɹiːˈdɪs.tɹɪb.juːt/
- Hyphenation: re‧dis‧trib‧ute
Verb
editredistribute (third-person singular simple present redistributes, present participle redistributing, simple past and past participle redistributed)
- (transitive) To distribute again.
- Coordinate term: reassign
- Near-synonym: reallocate
- 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.
Related terms
editTranslations
editdistribute again
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