Redirect
verb
To direct someone or something to a different place or by a different route.
If the website is down, it will automatically redirect users to a backup site.
Often appears as...
- redirect traffic
- redirect users
verb
To change the direction or focus of something.
The company decided to redirect their marketing strategy to focus on young adults.
Often appears as...
- redirect efforts
- redirect resources
Usage tips
Academic
verb
In computing, to send information to a new location, especially to a website or page.
When you click the link, you'll be automatically redirected to the login page.
Often appears as...
- redirect a link
- redirect to a different website
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To direct someone or something to a different place or by a different route.
If the website is down, it will automatically redirect users to a backup site.
Often appears as...
- redirect traffic
- redirect users
verb
To change the direction or focus of something.
The company decided to redirect their marketing strategy to focus on young adults.
Often appears as...
- redirect efforts
- redirect resources
Usage tips
Academic
verb
In computing, to send information to a new location, especially to a website or page.
When you click the link, you'll be automatically redirected to the login page.
Often appears as...
- redirect a link
- redirect to a different website
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Change
Indicates a sudden redirection to a different location, often surprising the person.
Heavy rain redirected the marathon course.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem Solving
Used when solving issues by guiding to an alternate solution or option.
Our support team will redirect you to the right department.
Pro Tip 3/3Flow Interruption
Describes the interruption of a normal flow, like traffic, due to an obstacle or plan.
The parade will redirect traffic downtown.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Change
Indicates a sudden redirection to a different location, often surprising the person.
Heavy rain redirected the marathon course.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem Solving
Used when solving issues by guiding to an alternate solution or option.
Our support team will redirect you to the right department.
Pro Tip 3/3Flow Interruption
Describes the interruption of a normal flow, like traffic, due to an obstacle or plan.
The parade will redirect traffic downtown.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Change
Indicates a sudden redirection to a different location, often surprising the person.
Heavy rain redirected the marathon course.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem Solving
Used when solving issues by guiding to an alternate solution or option.
Our support team will redirect you to the right department.
Pro Tip 3/3Flow Interruption
Describes the interruption of a normal flow, like traffic, due to an obstacle or plan.
The parade will redirect traffic downtown.
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What causes an economic...
For example, corporations and consumers may borrow more money with the assumption that economic growth will help them handle the added burden. But if the economy doesn’t grow as quickly as expected, they may end up with more debt than they can manage. To pay it off, they’ll have to redirect funds from other activities,
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Peter Saul: Let's talk...
got caught up in our own success quite a bit, and we started using expressions like "lifesaving." I really apologize to everybody for doing that, because obviously, we don't. What we do is prolong people's lives, and delay death, and redirect death, but we can't, strictly speaking,
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Paul Gilding: The Earth...
and to redirect the auto industry, and from there to rationing of food and energy. Think about how a company responds to a bankruptcy threat and how a change that seemed impossible just gets done. Think about how an individual responds to a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness
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Humanity's planet-shaping...
as I traveled with the United Nations before lockdown. Leaders who choose to do things differently. Costa Rica made a choice to abolish its army and redirect military spending to education, health and the environment. Today, they pay people to protect the trees. And as a result,
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Let's talk about dying -...
and we we kind of got caught up in our own success quite a bit we started using expressions like life-saving I really apologize for everybody for doing that because obviously we don't what we do is prolong people's lives and delay death and redirect death but we
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Eve Ensler: Security and...
in the spirit of the warrior, have gone into the center, the heart of pain, of loss. They have grieved it, they have died into it, and allowed and encouraged poison to turn into medicine. They have used the fuel of their pain to begin to redirect that energy
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The rise and fall of...
to redirect river water and farm large areas of previously bone-dry land. Agricultural communities like this were slowly springing up around the world. But Sumerians were the first to take the next step. Using clay bricks made from river mud,
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A Lesson in Aggression PIPE...
now he this is better we often say look for a profession or they help you to go in the right direction see here if your dog is aggressive they don't tell you to go away they tell you how to get rid of the aggression or how to redirect the
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Ellen Dunham-Jones:...
to take our least-sustainable landscapes right now and convert them into more sustainable places. And in the process, what that allows us to do is to redirect a lot more of our growth back into existing communities that could use a boost,
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Why we need to end the...
we can make sure the world knows that we need to put an end to the unnecessary institutionalization of vulnerable children. How do we achieve that? By redirecting our support and our donations
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What causes an economic...
For example, corporations and consumers may borrow more money with the assumption that economic growth will help them handle the added burden. But if the economy doesn’t grow as quickly as expected, they may end up with more debt than they can manage. To pay it off, they’ll have to redirect funds from other activities,
Video examples
Peter Saul: Let's talk...
got caught up in our own success quite a bit, and we started using expressions like "lifesaving." I really apologize to everybody for doing that, because obviously, we don't. What we do is prolong people's lives, and delay death, and redirect death, but we can't, strictly speaking,
Video examples
Paul Gilding: The Earth...
and to redirect the auto industry, and from there to rationing of food and energy. Think about how a company responds to a bankruptcy threat and how a change that seemed impossible just gets done. Think about how an individual responds to a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness
Video examples
Humanity's planet-shaping...
as I traveled with the United Nations before lockdown. Leaders who choose to do things differently. Costa Rica made a choice to abolish its army and redirect military spending to education, health and the environment. Today, they pay people to protect the trees. And as a result,
Video examples
Let's talk about dying -...
and we we kind of got caught up in our own success quite a bit we started using expressions like life-saving I really apologize for everybody for doing that because obviously we don't what we do is prolong people's lives and delay death and redirect death but we
Video examples
Eve Ensler: Security and...
in the spirit of the warrior, have gone into the center, the heart of pain, of loss. They have grieved it, they have died into it, and allowed and encouraged poison to turn into medicine. They have used the fuel of their pain to begin to redirect that energy
Video examples
The rise and fall of...
to redirect river water and farm large areas of previously bone-dry land. Agricultural communities like this were slowly springing up around the world. But Sumerians were the first to take the next step. Using clay bricks made from river mud,
Video examples
A Lesson in Aggression PIPE...
now he this is better we often say look for a profession or they help you to go in the right direction see here if your dog is aggressive they don't tell you to go away they tell you how to get rid of the aggression or how to redirect the
Video examples
Ellen Dunham-Jones:...
to take our least-sustainable landscapes right now and convert them into more sustainable places. And in the process, what that allows us to do is to redirect a lot more of our growth back into existing communities that could use a boost,
Video examples
Why we need to end the...
we can make sure the world knows that we need to put an end to the unnecessary institutionalization of vulnerable children. How do we achieve that? By redirecting our support and our donations
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Greg Boyle
American Clergyman
You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works.
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Michael Gerber
American Writer
Trendy gadgets and edgy pitches inevitably get replaced due to the fickle nature of the buying public, but a business designed from the start to play big has the ability to weather trends and redirect itself to venues and products that its customers want and need.
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Joseph Stiglitz
American Economist
In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending - the key to long-term improvement in living standards.
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Rutger Hauer
Dutch Actor
Martial arts is like dance. It's so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically says is you take their energy and you redirect it. Then if you need to, use it on them. That whole thing about redirecting energy I love.
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Clemantine Wamariya
American Author
The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.
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Max McKeown
English Writer
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.
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David Perlmutter
American Scientist
Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
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John Podhoretz
American Writer
Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage.
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Harper Reed
American Businessman
My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.
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Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see.
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Greg Boyle
American Clergyman
You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works.
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Michael Gerber
American Writer
Trendy gadgets and edgy pitches inevitably get replaced due to the fickle nature of the buying public, but a business designed from the start to play big has the ability to weather trends and redirect itself to venues and products that its customers want and need.
Quote examples
Joseph Stiglitz
American Economist
In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending - the key to long-term improvement in living standards.
Quote examples
Rutger Hauer
Dutch Actor
Martial arts is like dance. It's so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically says is you take their energy and you redirect it. Then if you need to, use it on them. That whole thing about redirecting energy I love.
Quote examples
Clemantine Wamariya
American Author
The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.
Quote examples
Max McKeown
English Writer
Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.
Quote examples
David Perlmutter
American Scientist
Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
Quote examples
John Podhoretz
American Writer
Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage.
Quote examples
Harper Reed
American Businessman
My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.
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Mary Lou Jepsen
American Businesswoman
Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see.
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