The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reapportion \Re`ap*por"tion\ (-p[=o]r"sh[u^]n), v. t. To apportion again.
Wiktionary
vb. To apportion again; to redistribute or reallocate.
WordNet
v. allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" [syn: reallocate]
Usage examples of "reapportion".
Although taking an enlarged view of its power in making the enumeration of persons called for by this section, Congress has not always complied with its positive mandate to reapportion representatives among the States after the census is taken.
After the enemy has gone, we draw together the bits and pieces, reapportion the weakened forces, and wait for the next blow.
No matter how it was subsidized or reapportioned or provided via scholarship or grant program, the education was expensive, a substantial drain on the Gross Planetary Product.
I agree that the budget should be reapportioned along the lines that you suggested, supplying money and jobs relevant to both the national interest and environmental concerns, but how can the average citizen relate this to the President and Congress, who are mainly concerned with their own personal interests?
They knew that their territories were to be reapportioned, to give the newcomers a break.
I gathered little headway was being made for there were so many countries present, all with their own ideas of how Europe should be reapportioned now that Napoleon was exiled.
When he died, that wealth would be reapportioned, broken up, dispersed like so much sand.
We will reapportion the board accordingly-one-third controlled by you, one-third by Sierra Vistas Partners, and one-third by the other shareholders.