REDISTRIBUTE


Meaning of REDISTRIBUTE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

income

Public policy should redistribute income and subsidise, if not deliver directly, essential services such as education and health.

Ethically, it is impossible to redistribute income intentionally in a developing country to see if civil strife erupts.

The Conservatives' taxation and benefit policies have redistributed income from the poor to the rich.

Not quite so obviously, they want to redistribute income from those with more to those with less.

An alternative is that in which government takes much greater action to redistribute income .

land

He said it would redistribute the land to the squatters and other poor black people.

wealth

Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.

There is a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor.

■ VERB

want

Not quite so obviously, they want to redistribute income from those with more to those with less.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Taxes are a way of redistributing income for the welfare of the whole society.

The socialists are committed to redistributing wealth.

The tax will be collected nationally and the money raised will be redistributed to local authorities.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And some wealth is going to get redistributed.

Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.

Public policy should redistribute income and subsidise, if not deliver directly, essential services such as education and health.

The optimal tariff increases welfare only marginally, its main effect being to redistribute welfare from farmers to government.

The scramble to redistribute existing resources and clients provides the conditions for the development of schemes such as the duty solicitor.

The tribute that poured into the temple store-rooms, dedicated variously to deities and sanctuaries, had to be recorded and redistributed.

These gifts would then be redistributed to the poor, either individually or collectively.

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