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redirect

verb
     
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re‧di‧rect [transitive]
1 to use something for a different purpose:
She was good at redirecting the children's energy into something useful.
2 to send something in a different direction:
The flight was redirected to Cleveland.
3 British EnglishTCM to send someone's letters to their new address from an address that they have left [= forward]
redirection noun [uncountable]
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