reapportion

1. 1.

   allocate, distribute, or apportion anew

   “Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data”

   Synonymsreallocate

   Broaderallocate

Other forms of reapportion

past tense

reapportioned·

present participle

reapportioning·

third person

reapportions·

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 reapportion

What does reapportion mean?

reapportion means "allocate, distribute, or apportion anew".

How many syllables are in reapportion?

reapportion has 5 syllables: re-ap-por-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for reapportion?

Close synonyms include reallocate. 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 reapportion a common word?

reapportion 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.