redistribution

noun

Definition of redistributionnext
as in reallocation

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  1. distribution
  2. reapportionment
  3. apportionment
Noun
  • Paramount, working with some co-financiers, acquired the feature for North America distribution (and Japan and France) for $25 million.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The victim might not notice that the email was addressed to a user who had registered a free Microsoft 365 test domain to create the distribution list that contained the target emails.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of distribution
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  • Florida and Texas have been gaining seats for a few decades, while New York has been losing seats over each reapportionment cycle.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Last year, the Brennan Center for Justice predicted that the state was on track to lose four more congressional districts in reapportionment in 2030, leaving California with just 48 House seats.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of reapportionment
Noun
  • In a 2020 article, the Pew Research Center examined how removing unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 census apportionment count could affect the reapportionment of House seats.
    Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
  • Minnesota received the last seat in the 2020 apportionment of the House.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of apportionment
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