redistribution
Sharing resources anew
Redistribution is the act of distributing something again or differently.
The term most often appears in political and economic contexts, where redistribution of wealth means transferring resources from those who have more to those who have less, typically through taxation and social programs.
Land redistribution divides large holdings among smaller owners.
In computing, software redistribution refers to sharing or passing along programs to others.
Distributing anew
- apportionmentDivision into shares
- reassignmentShifting to new duties
- reapportionmentRedistributing legislative seats
- reshuffleRearrange elements anew
redeploy · rearrangement · allotment · division · parceling · rationing · disbursement · dispensation
Unequal distribution of resources
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- regressiveReverting to earlier stages
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
fairness · justice · social programs · welfare · taxation · means-tested · universal basic income · reparations
Distributing power from center
- devolutionTransferring power locally
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- federalismDivided governmental authority system
subsidiarity · empowerment · transfer · relinquishment · decolonization · self-determination · sovereignty · local governance
State spending and taxation
- monetary policyCentral bank economic controls
- KeynesianPro-intervention economic theory
- trickle-downTheory wealth spreads below
- socialismCommunal economic control
capitalism · mixed economy · public spending · government intervention · stimulus · austerity · budget · deficit
Insufficiency of something needed
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- supply chainProduct delivery infrastructure
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
stockpile · reserves · commodities · food aid · humanitarian · famine relief · rationing · central planning
Distributing work across resources
- serverOne who attends tables
- networkInterconnected system
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- trafficMovement along routes
computing · parallel processing · clustering · nodes · workload · throughput · partitioning · sharding
reallocation
Distributing anew
- apportionmentDivision into shares
- reassignmentShifting to new duties
- reapportionmentRedistributing legislative seats
reshuffle · redeploy · rearrangement · allotment · division · parceling · rationing · disbursement · dispensation · portioning
inequality
Unequal distribution of resources
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- regressiveReverting to earlier stages
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
egalitarianism · fairness · justice · social programs · welfare · taxation · means-tested · universal basic income · reparations · land reform
decentralization
Distributing power from center
- devolutionTransferring power locally
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
federalism · subsidiarity · empowerment · transfer · relinquishment · decolonization · self-determination · sovereignty · local governance · states' rights
fiscal policy
State spending and taxation
- monetary policyCentral bank economic controls
- KeynesianPro-intervention economic theory
- trickle-downTheory wealth spreads below
socialism · capitalism · mixed economy · public spending · government intervention · stimulus · austerity · budget · deficit · GDP
scarcity
Insufficiency of something needed
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- supply chainProduct delivery infrastructure
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
inventory · stockpile · reserves · commodities · food aid · humanitarian · famine relief · rationing · central planning · market forces
load balancing
Distributing work across resources
traffic · computing · parallel processing · clustering · nodes · workload · throughput · partitioning · sharding · cloud computing
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- inequalitywealth gap, income gap, disparity, wage gap, income disparity
- reorganizingrearranging, restructuring, reshuffling, reshuffle, regrouping
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- socialismMarxism, communism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, communal ownership
- Economic Fairnessequal pay, fair wages, fair pay, pay equity, wage gap
redistributionaccumulation
Collected mass over time
concentration · hoarding · consolidation · centralization · aggregation
redistributionlaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
trickle-down economics · privatization · supply-side economics · deregulation · tax cuts
redistributionretention
Continued holding or possession
preservation · status quo · maintenance · conservation · entrenchment
- wealth redistributionShifting assets across society
- income redistributionReallocating resources across populations
- land redistributionReassigning property among populations