单词 | redistribution |
释义 | redistributionn. The action or process of redistributing something, typically wealth or resources. Also: the result or an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > constituency > redistribution of seats redistribution1825 1825 Pamphleteer 26 510 The benefits diffused by the re-distribution of internal taxation among some interchangers..are more than counterbalanced by the privation..occasioned by the collection. 1835 Times 26 Feb. 1/4 It was impossible by any mode of re-distribution nicely to poise the burden on the Catholic population in that country. 1867 H. Spencer First Princ. (ed. 2) ii. xiii. §100. 292 A liquid-solid aggregate, or, as we commonly call it, a plastic aggregate, will admit of internal redistribution with comparative facility. 1882 H. Spencer Polit. Inst. in Princ. Sociol. III. 576 A redistribution of military obligations. 1903 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 14 Feb. 22679/1 A deposit of the flooded rivers during a stage of abundant ice melting, with considerable redistribution over the interfluvial upland areas by winds. 1950 L. E. Hawker Physiol. Fungi ii. 37 When a heterokaryotic cell divides, a redistribution of the nuclei may occur. 1995 AA Mag. (Automobile Assoc.) Summer 50/2 I'm afraid there's been a redistribution of wealth, squire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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