Betekenis van redirect In het Nederlands

• 0 to change the direction of something, especially to send a letter to a new address:

  • Resources must be redirected into the many under-funded areas of education.

  • Please redirect any mail that arrives for me to my address in Ottawa.

• 1 to use money, assets, etc. for a different purpose from the one they were originally intended for:

  • redirect sth (from sth) to sth Cost savings have allowed companies to redirect resources to other projects.

  • redirect money/resources/funds Some of the money driving the internet advertising boom has been redirected from television marketing budgets.

  • redirect sth into/toward(s) sth Most of the subsidies are redirected to environmental schemes.

  • Prices have been slashed by 15%, with advertising revenues redirected towards younger, more upmarket buyers.

• 2 to send mail to someone's new address:

  • We asked the Post Office to redirect all our mail.

• 3 if someone redirects a telephone call, the call automatically goes through to a second number, rather than the one originally called:

  • redirect sth to sth More than 15,000 students signed up to a scheme to have all their calls redirected to a personal number.