noun
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distribution or allotment
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the act or process of distributing afresh
verb
Etymology
Origin of repartition
Example Sentences
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IN 1805, President Thomas Jefferson urged "a just repartition" of federal revenues among the states for the promotion of "canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education and other great objects within each state."
From Time Magazine Archive
Again, what discordance is there not as to the most equitable repartition of taxation!
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas
Yes, but this so-called ingratitude, gained at the price of God knows what struggles, is it not, even apart from the divine vocation, the most equitable repartition of human love?
From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
In this case, it would even be better to hand all property over to the State, that it might establish a certain order and fixity in the repartition of it.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul
Such is the fantastical and unjust inequality between mass and mass, in this curious repartition of the rights of representation arising out of territory and contribution.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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