reallocation

Thân thiện

Congressional districts undergo reallocation after each census.

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.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
2. a share that has been allocated again

Từ đồng nghĩa

• reallotment
• reapportionment