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re·dis·tri·bu·tion

(rē′dĭs-trə-byo͞o′shən)

1. The act or process of redistributing.

2. An economic theory or policy that advocates reducing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

re′dis·tri·bu′tion·ist adj. & n.

re′dis·trib′u·tive (-trĭb′yə-tĭv) adj.

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redistribution

(ˌriːdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃən)

1. the act or instance of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed again

2. (in Canada)a periodic revision of the number of seats in the House of Commons, made to reflect changes in population

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re•dis•tri•bu•tion

(ˌri dɪs trəˈbyu ʃən)

n.

1. a distribution performed again or anew.

2. the economic theory that inequalities in income can be reduced by such measures as a progressive income tax and antipoverty programs.

[1830–40]

re`dis•tri•bu′tion•ist, n., adj.

redistribution

The utilization of logistic resources after Transfer of Authority necessary for the fulfillment of the commander's combat missions. The logistic resources are designated in peacetime and will become assigned to the NATO commander in crisis and conflict.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Noun

redistribution - distributing again; "the revolution resulted in a redistribution of wealth"

distribution - the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

Translations

αναδιανομή

ridistribuzione

redistribution

[ˈriːˌdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃən] N → redistribución f

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redistribution

[ˌriːdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃ^ən] n [wealth, income] → redistribution fred-letter day n → jour m à marquer d'une pierre blanchered light n (= traffic light) → feu m rouge
to go through a red light → brûler un feu rougered-light district n → quartier m des prostituéesred meat n → viande f rouge

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redistribution

n (of wealth) → Umverteilung f, → Neuverteilung f; (of work) → Neuzuteilung f

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Expressive Voting and Government Redistribution: Testing Tullock's "Charity of the Uncharitable." Public Choice 119, nos.

Gordon Tullock on Inequality and Redistribution

The most obvious is the redistribution of adult resources in favor of the children and the young--such redistribution has an intergenerational character.

REDISTRIBUTIVE ASPECTS ASSOCIATED TO PUBLIC FINANCING OF EDUCATION

Other than a segment on South Africa's land redistribution on Fox News, hosted by Tucker Carlson, Trump's tweet came following (https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-should-warn-south-africa-land-expropriations) an article published on a U.S.

Trump Tells Pompeo To Probe South Africa's Land Reform Policy

These countries carried out the land reform program with speed and political credibility immediately following up the redistribution of land with very effective infrastructure building programs as well as financial and marketing services to the small farmers whose incomes increased to the level of the urban wage earners.

Can the Philippines eradicate poverty? (Part 2)

The company's Community Food Connection scheme - run in conjunction with food redistribution charity FareShare and FoodCloud technology - distributes hundreds of thousands of meals to good causes every week.

"To understand the logic behind support for--or opposition to--economic redistribution, the research team focused on three motives: compassion, self-interest and envy."

Why Spread the Wealth?

There is growing recognition that redistribution of soil material by tillage may play an important role in the global carbon (C) cycle, considering the widespread occurrence of tillage and the high redistribution rates associated with the process (Covers et al.

Traditional manual tillage significantly affects soil redistribution and C[O.sub.2] emission in agricultural plots on the Loess Plateau

Judith Tonner Charities and community groups across Monklands have received a grand total of 45,709 meals via Tesco's surplus food redistribution scheme, Community Food Connection.

45,000 meals are delivered

Concerning the fact that FRP reinforcement demonstrates linear elastic behavior up to failure, meaning demonstrating lack of material nonlinearity, there is a question of ability of this material, in conjunction with concrete, to realize load redistribution in statically indeterminate structures [1].

Experimental Research of Continuous Concrete Beams with GFRP Reinforcement

[10] investigate the cascading failures in directed complex networks and make a load redistribution rule of average allocation.

A Novel Load Capacity Model with a Tunable Proportion of Load Redistribution against Cascading Failures

One big act of egalitarianism was decolonisation itself, which allowed countries around the world to keep the wealth they produced instead of sending it overseas, and freed them to implement both better industrial policies and more redistribution. If India, for example, had remained under British control, there's a good chance it would have continued to be vulnerable to disasters like the Bengal Famine of 1943.