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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
redistribute .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having population and industries relocated from urban to outlying areas
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Examples
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When a plaintiff wins a case, typically the remedy is that wealth is redistributed from the defendant to the plaintiff.
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It has been being redistributed from the middle class to the top 5% for the last 30 years.
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With offshore tax shelters and tax loopholes being used by the upper class to hide their money from being taxed, the middle class has been left to support the poor, which means the money has been redistributed from the middle class to the upper class, due to the greed of the upper class.
Think Progress » Glenn Beck says his smear campaign against Van Jones was ‘not a personal thing.’ 2010
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With offshore tax shelters and tax loopholes being used by the upper class to hide their money from being taxed, the middle class has been left to support the poor, which means the money has been redistributed from the middle class to the upper class, due to the greed of the upper class.
Think Progress » Glenn Beck says his smear campaign against Van Jones was ‘not a personal thing.’ 2010
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When a plaintiff wins a case, typically the remedy is that wealth is redistributed from the defendant to the plaintiff.
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Actually, there was a lot of evidence that risk was being "redistributed" in ways we should all worry about.
Janet Tavakoli: Michael Lewis: Junior Salesgirlieman Janet Tavakoli 2010
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Actually, there was a lot of evidence that risk was being "redistributed" in ways we should all worry about.
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Actually, there was a lot of evidence that risk was being "redistributed" in ways we should all worry about.
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Between 2006 and 2007, the Bloomberg administration "redistributed" the federal emergency AIDS money (commonly known as Ryan White funds) which pays for the "enhanced" AIDS medical care and support services used by some 40,000 people with AIDS in the city.
Chris Norwood: Women With AIDS In NYC: Killing Them Softly 2009
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More recently, City administrator Mark Dashield stated both privately and publicly that none of those functions would be outsourced, with the possible exception of matters involving landscape architecture -- that instead, they would be "redistributed," presumably within the PW&UD Department.
Archive 2007-12-01 Dan 2007
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