redistribution

redistribute | Business English

redistribute
verb[ T ]
 ECONOMICS, POLITICSuk /ˌriːdɪˈstrɪbjuːt/us
to share something out differently from before, especially in a fairer way:
Some people are in favour of redistributing income to the poor, even at the expense of tax rises.
The minimum wage was never meant to be a measure for redistributing wealth.
redistribute power/resourcesThe commission has its own projects to redistribute power between bosses and their boards.

Examples of redistribute

redistribute
The structural repeat is transposed, varied and redistributed, and an agile coda has the soloist in cahoots with its orchestral counterparts.
Very crudely, the egalitarian will have to tax and redistribute earned incomes in some form in order to correct for the residual inequality of talents.
So why do they not always club together and enforce tax policies that redistribute riches to themselves?
From a computational viewpoint the scattering object is represented by a feedback matrix which redistributes energy among the delay lines.
Because water was the energy source powering the mines, it needed to be conserved, redistributed, and managed in an orderly and frugal manner.
Below, they are confused and redistributed and tossed around endlessly.
Prebendalism is essentially a system of shared identity and social solidarity expressing itself through a circuit which concentrates and redistributes income.
For those cases the imposed flows redistribute solute in the melt, which modifies the stability boundary from the pure solidification problem.
On the other hand, the choice of substitution elasticities among productive inputs and the rule used for redistributing carbon tax revenue do influence the results.
Our calculations indicate that both reform packages redistribute resources from currently living middle-aged generations to younger and future living generations.
Liberalization increases aggregate output by causing production to be redistributed, with countries exporting goods for which they have a comparative advantage.
Quite expectedly, the new government's enthusiastic drive to redistribute land invited protest.
One study hinted that the act was failing to redistribute rented housing more rationally.
When new mediators convey different news stories or offer different interpretations from the previous regime, they redistribute control of politics and culture.
This land was then designated to be redistributed to the indigenous people.
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