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Definition of Reallotment
1. Noun. A new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results).
Generic synonyms: Allocation, Allotment, Apportioning, Apportionment, Assignation, Parceling, Parcelling
Specialized synonyms: Reshuffle
Geographical relationships: America, The States, U.s., U.s.a., United States, United States Of America, Us, Usa
Derivative terms: Reallocate, Reallot, Reapportion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reallotment
Literary usage of Reallotment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt and the Egyptian Question by Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1883)
"... of administrative reform—The economic questions clamouring for solution—The
indebtedness of the fellaheen—The irrigation system —reallotment of the land ..."
2. Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 edited by Barry Leonard (1994)
"(a) At any time that the Secretary makes an allotment or reallotment to any State
under any applicable program, the Secretary shall reduce such allotment or ..."
3. Toward the Understanding of Jesus, and Other Historical Studies by Vladimir Grigorievitch Simkhovitch (1921)
"For the custom of a periodical reallotment of land under tillage, ... There reallotment
was readjustment, because the Russian manorial system did not grant ..."
4. Workforce Investment Act: States’ Spending Is on Track, but Better Guidance by Sigurd R. Nilsen, Dianne Blank, Meeta Sharma (2003)
"As for benchmarks for spending in UK future, we believe that benchmarks should
be included in reauthorization through the inclusion of a reallotment based ..."
5. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"These two things led to the advocacy of cancellation of all old allotments and
reallotment upon a more equitable basis and to make a new start in the ..."
6. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"It will be surprising to many that Professor Meitzen should treat the question
of periodical reallotment of the strips as one of subordinate interest. ..."
7. Report by Indians Rights Association (1908)
"These two things led to the advocacy of cancellation of all old allotments and
reallotment upon a more equitable basis and to make a new start in the ..."
8. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"... the Lower Brule Reservation, and estimated to contain about one hundred and
twenty thousand (120000) acres, described as follows: reallotment. Provisos. ..."
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