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  • noun One who redistributes; a company in the business of redistribution of goods.

Etymologies

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redistribute +‎ -or

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Examples

  • John McCain denounced his opponent as a socialist and a "redistributor," but America voted for him anyway.

    baithak 2008

  • The country is sharply divided over the role of government as a driver of economic investment and redistributor of wealth.

    The GOP Field 2011

  • It wasn't really cost effective for your average reader to become a redistributor of books, because, frankly, the cost of the mass market paperback was cheaper than the cost of their time and money to make the copies!

    File-sharing Follow-up and Friday LEGO jimhines 2010

  • I'd say the govt's bovine excrement has just hit the air redistributor. bettie says:

    Potentially explosive - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca 2010

  • John McCain's ridiculous "Barack the redistributor" attacks yesterday over that 2001 interview Barack Obama gave in which he allegedly called for the mass transfer of wealth from hard-working Americans to lazy poor people.

    McCain The Redistributor And The Seriousness Gap 2009

  • Over at TNR's The Plank, there's some more good push-back against John McCain's ridiculous "Barack the redistributor" attacks yesterday over that 2001 interview Barack Obama gave in which he allegedly called for the mass transfer of wealth from hard-working Americans to lazy poor people.

    Joe the Plumber 2009

  • Obama is not a Socialist, nor, thus far, has he proven to be much of a “wealth redistributor”.

    Chronicling the Economic Apocalypse 2009

  • Business looks at Obama as the great “redistributor”.

    Barack Obama’s Stimulus Is Not Stimulating - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009

  • The strangest irony of that election was that for all her bleating about Barack Obama being a Socialist and wealth redistributor, Gov.

    Chronicling the Economic Apocalypse 2009

  • Over at TNR's The Plank, there's some more good push-back against John McCain's ridiculous "Barack the redistributor" attacks yesterday over that 2001 interview Barack Obama gave in which he allegedly called for the mass transfer of wealth from hard-working Americans to lazy poor people.

    McCain The Redistributor And The Seriousness Gap 2009

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