redistributor

One who reallocates

A redistributor is someone or something that redistributes—that takes resources, goods, or wealth from one place or group and allocates them elsewhere.

The term appears in political and economic contexts: Critics called the new tax policy a wealth redistributor.

It can also describe technical components that redirect flow or signals in mechanical and electrical systems.

economic

wealth

Abundance of valuable resources

  • incomeRegular monetary receipts
  • resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
  • taxationCompulsory government revenue collection

progressive tax · welfare · social safety net · subsidies · grants · universal basic income · land reform · reparations · entitlements · public spending

political

government

Authority over a state

senate · voting · democracy · partisanship · coalition · lobbying · representatives · elections · campaigns · bureaucracy

electrical

power

Energy transfer rate

  • circuitClosed electrical pathway
  • transformerVoltage-altering electrical device
  • gridFramework of intersecting lines

voltage · current · panel · breaker · switchgear · wiring · substation · relay · conduit · junction box

mechanical

load balancer

Distributes requests across servers

junction · valve · diverter · router · switch · regulator · flow control · shunt · bypass · conduit

software

load balancer

Distributes requests across servers

traffic · routing · algorithm · node · cluster · bandwidth · throughput · caching · API · microservices

Opposites
resource flow direction

redistributorhoarder

One who amasses excessively

accumulator · amasser · collector · concentrator · stockpiler

economic ideology

redistributormonopolist

Sole market controller

plutocrat · robber baron · miser · rent-seeker · oligarch

Phrases
Family

redistribute, redistributing, redistributed, redistribution, redistributive

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