reapportionment
Americannoun
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the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something.
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the redistribution of representation in a legislative body.
Etymology
Origin of reapportionment
First recorded in 1930–35; reapportion + -ment
Vocabulary lists containing reapportionment
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That case challenged a 1974 reapportionment of New York state legislative districts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
There will be reapportionment after the 2030 census to reallocate states based on population.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
Their complaint argued that the reapportionment “packs” Turtle Mountain tribal members into one House district and leaves Spirit Lake out of a majority-Native district.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
That reapportionment gave six states additional seats and reduced the number of seats held by seven states.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
According to the congressional reapportionment act following the twelfth census, there were to be 386 members in the House of Representatives or one representative to 194,182 of the population.
From History of the United States, Volume 6 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
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