reapportionment
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əˈpɔr noun
1.
the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something.
2.
the redistribution of representation in a legislative body.
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| reapportionment | |
noun | |
| a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) [syn: reallotment] |
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reapportionment
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example sentences
Reapportionment, which came to be the standard word for this process, required a remarkably unselfish state legislator.
Members of the commission shall hold office until their reapportionment and redistricting plan is implemented.
Reapportionment happens every ten years after the decennial census.
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