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発音

• enPR: rē-dĭ-strĭbʹyo͞ot, rē-dĭsʹtrĭb-yo͞ot
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɹiː.dɪˈstɹɪb.juːt/, /ˌɹiːˈdɪs.tɹɪb.juːt/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˌɹi.dɪˈstɹɪb.jut/
• ハイフネーション: re‧dis‧trib‧ute

動詞

redistribute (third-person singular simple present redistributes, present participle redistributing, simple past and past participle redistributed)

1. (transitive) To distribute again.

   Coordinate term: reassign

   Near-synonym: reallocate

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     And so new friendships were formed, and new enmities, and old friendships preserved, and old enmities. And all was agreement and disagreement and amity and enmity, as before, only redistributed.

   • 2007 August 9, “M-16s a step forward for Iraqi forces, says US”, in Reuters‎:

     The AK-47s handed in would then be registered in the database before being redistributed to new units formed as Iraq takes over security control from U.S.-led forces, he said.

2. (transitive) To distribute differently.
   • 2000, Johnson Publishing Company (publisher), “How To Live With AIDS: A Personal Story By Rae Lewis-Thornton”, in Jet‎, volume 97, number 10, page 53:

     My medicine also redistributed the fat in my body. I went from a size 6 to a size 12 at the top part of my body in two months.

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