reallocation
Definition
Noun: 1. The act of allocating something again or differently: The process of distributing or assigning resources, funds, duties, or other items to different people, groups, or purposes than before. 2. A share or portion that has been allocated again: A specific amount of something that has been reassigned through this process.
Usage and Examples
- General Usage: The noun "reallocation" is commonly used in formal and administrative contexts to describe the official redistribution of resources.
- The budget review led to a reallocation of funds from marketing to research and development.
- Efficient reallocation of staff was necessary to meet the project deadline.
- Specific Context (U.S. Politics): In a specific institutional context, it can refer to the redistribution of political representation.
- The census results triggered a reallocation of congressional seats among the states.
Advanced Usage
- "Reallocation of assets": A financial term for moving investments from one type of asset to another.
- The investor's strategy involved a periodic reallocation of assets to manage risk.
- "Dynamic reallocation": Used in computing and management to describe a system that redistributes resources automatically based on current demand.
- The server uses dynamic reallocation of processing power to handle traffic spikes.
Variants and Related Words
- Reallocate (verb): To allocate again or differently.
- The manager decided to reallocate the team's responsibilities.
- Reallocated (adjective): Describing something that has been assigned again.
- The reallocated budget was now sufficient for the task.
Synonyms
- Redistribution: The act of distributing something again in a different way.
- Reassignment: The act of assigning someone or something to a different category, place, or group.
- Reapportionment: The action of sharing something out again in a different way (often used in political contexts).
Antonyms
- Fixed allocation: An assignment of resources that remains unchanged.
- Static distribution: A distribution that does not change over time.
Noun
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a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
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a share that has been allocated again
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