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REDISTRIBUTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does redistributed mean?
• REDISTRIBUTED (adjective)
The adjective REDISTRIBUTED has 1 sense:
1. having population and industries relocated from urban to outlying areas
Familiarity information: REDISTRIBUTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having population and industries relocated from urban to outlying areas
Context example:
redistributed industries
Similar:
decentralised; decentralized (withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities)
Context examples
The train has been broken up before now, and the carriages redistributed.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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