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REALLOTMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reallotment mean?
• REALLOTMENT (noun)
The noun REALLOTMENT has 1 sense:
1. a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
Familiarity information: REALLOTMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
reallocation; reallotment; reapportionment
Hypernyms ("reallotment" is a kind of...):
allocation; allotment; apportioning; apportionment; assignation; parceling; parcelling (the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reallotment"):
reshuffle (a redistribution of something)
Derivation:
reallot (allot again)
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