forwardverb
COMMUNICATIONS
if someone redirects a telephone call, the call automatically goes through to a second number, rather than the one originally called:
redirect sth to sthMore than 15,000 students signed up to a scheme to have all their calls redirected to a personal number.

Examples of redirect

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In purely practical terms, it is easier to craft policy mechanisms that can redirect the costs of some social problems than of others.
This, in turn, enabled him to redirect his attention to other meaningful activities that did not involve driving.
The primary clinician must be aware of the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of assistants' efforts and redirect their actions or adjust his/her own accordingly.
In addition, it shows that infants actively direct others' attention, and even redirect others' attention when they are mistakenly referring to an incorrect referent.
In summary, a reorientation of agencies toward "early" prevention is urgently needed to redirect resources to deal with youth at a younger age.
As a result, children may devote less time attending to language about objects, people, and events, thus prompting parents to redirect their attention more frequently.
As development proceeds, canalization generally deepens - developmental trajectories progressively become more difficult to redirect by experience.
They have implemented a sophisticated user-interface that allows a human operator to interrupt the system, to take over some tasks, and to redirect the system.
Meanwhile, other charities in the forest parishes were redirected to provide winter fuel for poor villagers rather than apprenticeships for young people.
The system of state schooling was sustained, but was redirected to other elitist ends influenced by the private education sector.
Often, the air flow rate is enhanced by catching and redirecting the prevailing wind.
In this, they significantly redirected the relationship between financial and cultural change and in particular its role in the financial plots of novels.
Without redirecting the focus of economic evaluation research, choosing in health care bears the risk to remain penny-wise but pound-foolish.
In theory, all of this labor could be redirected into resource extraction.
The authors suggested that redirecting attention may tax the information processing demands of infants.
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