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REAPPORTION
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they reapportion
... he / she / it reapportions
Past simple: reapportioned
Past participle: reapportioned
-ing form: reapportioning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Allocate, distribute, or apportion anew
Example:
Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data
Synonyms:
reallocate; reapportion
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "reapportion" is one way to...):
allocate; apportion (distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Derivation:
reapportionment (a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results))
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