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Definition of Reapportion
1. Verb. Allocate, distribute, or apportion anew. "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data"
Generic synonyms: Allocate, Apportion
Derivative terms: Reallocation, Reallocation, Reapportionment
Definition of Reapportion
1. v. t. To apportion again.
Definition of Reapportion
1. Verb. To apportion again; to redistribute or reallocate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reapportion
1. apportion [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: apportion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reapportion
Literary usage of Reapportion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico by New Mexico Supreme Court, Supreme Court, New Mexico (1896)
"... when assembled at the capital, to reapportion the members of the council and
house of representatives in their respective territories upon the basis of ..."
2. The Struggle for Self-government: Being an Attempt to Trace American by Lincoln Steffens (1906)
"That Legislature would have to reapportion the State upon the basis of the census of
... The Republicans had little else to do but to reapportion the State; ..."
3. The Struggle for Self-government: Being an Attempt to Trace American by Lincoln Steffens (1906)
"That Legislature would have to reapportion the State upon the basis of the census of
... The Republicans had little else to do but to reapportion the State; ..."
4. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis Newton Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... the result of which shall have been so communicated to it by the governor,
shall reapportion representation in the two houses respectively in accordance ..."
5. Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States: Embracing the by United States, William Adams Richardson (1881)
"[SECTION 1], That the governor, and the speaker of the house of rep- reapportion-
resentatives and the president of the council during the last session of ..."
6. Acts of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey by New Jersey (1881)
"An act to reapportion ihe several assembly districts of the state of New Jersey
_ 146 130. A supplement to the act entitled "An act concerning cities in ..."
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