REAPPORTIONMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reapportionment mean? 

• REAPPORTIONMENT (noun)
  The noun REAPPORTIONMENT 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: REAPPORTIONMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REAPPORTIONMENT (noun)

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 ("reapportionment" 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 "reapportionment"):

reshuffle (a redistribution of something)

Derivation:

reapportion (allocate, distribute, or apportion anew)