MEANING
To change how resources, items, or responsibilities are spread among recipients.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- redistribute resources
- redistribute workload
On the page
The new schedule redistributed the workload across the team.
Word forms
- Base
- redistribute
- Past tense
- redistributed
- Past participle
- redistributed
- Present participle
- redistributing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- redistribute
- Present continuous
- am/is/are redistributing
- Present perfect
- have/has redistributed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been redistributing
- Past
- redistributed
- Past continuous
- was/were redistributing
- Past perfect
- had redistributed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been redistributing
- Future
- will redistribute
- Future continuous
- will be redistributing
- Future perfect
- will have redistributed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been redistributing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: redistribute; redistributes; redistributed; redistributed; redistributing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, qualification. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: redistributes.
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