reallocation

1. 1.

   a share that has been allocated again

   Broaderallotment
2. 2.

   a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)

   Synonymsreallotmentreapportionment

   Broaderallotment

   Narrowerreshuffle

   United States

Other forms of reallocation

plural

reallocations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reallocation

What does reallocation mean?

reallocation means "a share that has been allocated again". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reallocation?

reallocation has 5 syllables: re-al-lo-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ɹiˌæləˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for reallocation?

Close synonyms include reallotment, reapportionment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reallocation a common word?

reallocation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with reallocation?

104 words rhyme with reallocation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.