In the movie Love Actually, the prime minister asks his secretary to redistribute an employee, I think, because he was falling in love with that particular employee, Natalie.
Redistribute Natalie.
I can guess from the context that he wants her away to stop himself from thinking of her all the time, but I can't be sure because I couldn't find an authentic reference in dictionaries. However, I found a similar question online though the answers were contradictory and the context was not exactly what I described.
Does he mean give her a difficult task to do (to get her busier), reassign her, relocate her somewhere (so he can't see her at all) or maybe fire her?
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I found very few examples online where redistribute was followed by a person.
I can understand that in this example it means relocate.
In thefreedictionary.com reassign was given as a synonym to redistribute. Give her a difficult task to do or fire her sound the least possible meanings.