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reapportionment::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | reallocation, reallotment |
| Type of | allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
| Has types | reshuffle |
| Derivation | reapportion |
Examples of reapportionment
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Saban has reason to tack back to the Democrats on congressional reapportionment.
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Before reapportionment in 2002, Lawrence sat entirely within the third district.
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A recent Gallup poll shows a 3-to-2 national majority supporting reapportionment.
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The lack of reapportionment led to a serious underrepresentation of urban voters.
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Illinois is losing a congressional seat for the third consecutive reapportionment.
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In 2003, she relinquished the House seat, which was dismembered by reapportionment.
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It continued to lose seats from this point forward following every reapportionment.
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The House already has passed legislation to delay reapportionment until 1982.
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Despite the opposition, a reapportionment bill was passed by the legislature.
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- Reallotment: a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
- Apportionment is the process of allocating political power among a set of principles (or defined constituencies). In most representative governments, political power has most recently been apportioned among constituencies based on population, but there is a long history of different approaches.
- (Reapportion) Redistribution of the premium, late, and interest amounts specified for a case payment.
- (Reapportion) In family law, the division of family assets unequally, so as to favour one spouse over the other. See "Apportion" and "Family Assets."
- The redistricting of the state for election purposes. (See also "Apportionment".)
- Reallocation of a fixed number of seats in a governmental body among established political units. Following each decennial census, the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are reapportioned among the states. ...
- Unlike redistricting, which redraws the boundaries of electoral districts, reapportionment refers to the process of changing the distribution of seats within a legislative body. Because of the decennial Census, the House of Representatives undergoes occasional reapportionment. ...
- A process carried out once a decade after each U.S. census to divide the number of state senators and representatives among the state's population so that each legislator represents about the same number of constituents. The federal government also reapportions congressional seats for each state.
- A constitutionally mandated re-allocation of Congressional seats amongst the states. Allocation is based on population.
