REDISTRIBUTING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

redistributing

verb

present participle of redistribute

as in dividing

to divide (something) among a group in a different way Unused federal funds will be redistributed to other states. We need to redistribute the duties among ourselves; some of us are working too hard, and others are hardly working at all.

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Recent Examples of redistributing The goal should be upward mobility, not redistributing outcomes. —

Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 Just dialing up the rate of dark matter–baryon interactions reshapes the halo from the inside out, redistributing mass in the galaxy’s core in under a billion years. —

Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 6 May 2026 What this means for the wider economy The AI and data center boom is redistributing capital, supplier attention and pricing power across the broader economy. —

Vidya Mani, The Conversation, 1 May 2026 Interventions that support health — like sleep, diet, exercise, and meditation — are ways of increasing and redistributing energy within the body. —

Jasna Hodžić, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026 Since Wednesday, more than a foot of new snow has fallen in some areas, with gusty winds redistributing that snow into deeper, more dangerous drifts. —

Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026 In 1998, just 45% of Americans supported redistributing wealth through higher taxes on the richest; by 2022, that figure has climbed to 52%, according to Gallup. —

Preston Fore, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026 So this has been a very long journey to getting to redistributing and making spaces that are independent of promoters again. —

Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Mar. 2026 In theory, capping the rate at 10 percent would save consumers tens of billions of dollars while redistributing wealth from big banks and their shareholders to the low-income consumers who typically carry credit-card debt. —

Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026

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Some look at wide areas of the sky to do surveys, while others pinpoint specific targets; some take images, while others take spectra, dividing the incoming light into different energies (or colors, wavelengths or frequencies, all of which are different terms for essentially the same thing).

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
This time, the administration is dividing more families by greater distances than before, by expelling parents without their children, en masse.

— Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026