reallotment

Thân thiện

The committee approved the reallotment of funds for the new park.

Definition

Noun: 1. The act of allotting or distributing something again or differently: A new apportionment or redistribution of something, such as resources, shares, or responsibilities. 2. A specific new apportionment (especially in a political context): Most commonly refers to the reallocation of congressional seats in the United States House of Representatives among the states based on decennial census results.

Usage

The term is used in formal contexts, particularly in government, administration, and organizational management, to describe the process of reassigning portions of a total amount. * It is often synonymous with reapportionment in the specific context of U.S. legislative seats. * It implies an official, often legally mandated, redistribution based on new data or changed circumstances.

Examples

• The reallotment of funds from the marketing budget to research and development was approved by the board.
• After the census, the reallotment of congressional seats shifted political power to faster-growing states.
• The committee oversaw the reallotment of office space following the departmental merger.

Advanced Usage

• "to undergo reallotment": To be subject to a process of redistribution.
  • The grant money will undergo reallotment based on the final project proposals.
• "based on reallotment": Determined by the results of a new apportionment.
  • The new district boundaries were drawn based on the latest reallotment.

Variants and Related Words

• Reallot (verb): To allot or assign again.
  • The manager decided to reallot the tasks among the team members.
• Reapportionment (noun): The act of reapportioning; often used interchangeably with "reallotment" in political contexts.
• Reallocation (noun): A more general term for assigning something to a different purpose or recipient.
• Redistribution (noun): The action of sharing something out differently.

Synonyms

• Reapportionment
• Redistribution
• Reallocation
• Reassignment

Antonyms

• Retention
• Fixed allocation

Related Phrases

• Seat reallotment: Specifically refers to the changing number of legislative representatives assigned to a region.
  • The state gained two seats in the latest seat reallotment.

Học thuật

Noun

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• reapportionment
• reallocation