Definition of "reapportion" []

• To distribute anew. (verb-transitive)

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• "But, he said the Supreme Court lifted the stay order when it ruled that the commission was acting within its authority to reapportion electoral districts."
• "The census this year means that we must reapportion, redistrict both the U.S."
• "Instead, it took the opportunity to reapportion the diminished funds from scratch, to conduct a proper review which seems to have been fair and open, and has ended up supporting 695 organisations over the forthcoming spending period, of which 110 are newly funded."