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单词 reapportion
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Definition of reapportion in English:

reapportion

verbriːəˈpɔːʃ(ə)nˌriəˈpɔrʃ(ə)n
[with object]
  • Assign or distribute (something) again or in a different way.

    he received approval for constitutional amendments which reapportioned the seats
    a clearing house would have to be set up to reapportion VAT revenue
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Note, however, how these gains were reapportioned to the stable asset classes which more than doubled in the right hand case above.
    • It is clear that there must now be a reapportioning of power.
    • Yeah, I guess there'll have to be a reapportioning of duties, as all the old ones went the way of the city.
    • States and boundaries disappear while new ones emerge, the world is being reapportioned and nobody, least of all the German government, is prepared to stay on the sidelines.
    • It is a product of revolutionary reform, adopted in 1967 by a newly reapportioned Legislature elected under a reapportionment plan imposed by order of the federal court.
    • Walls that slide on tracks, platform floors, and pivoting panels are some of the devices used to reapportion the space while maintaining its flexible nature.
    • Then the bear shifted, almost as if it knew that Madeline was uncomfortable, reapportioning its bulk so that her ribs weren't crushed.
    • Sims transformed the American political scene by requiring states to reapportion their legislatures on the basis of ‘one person, one vote.’
    • The only hope is that the U.S. Supreme Court will recognize that the prime purpose of the census every 10 years is to reapportion the states and that any reapportionment beyond the first one is unconstitutional.
    • Frequent formation changes, shaped by both the enemy and terrain, forced the commander to constantly reapportion fires to facilitate security.
    • When two gas molecules collide, they can reapportion their energy in any way that leaves the total unchanged.
    • The Supreme Court played a key role in immigration reform with its rulings that congressional districts must be reapportioned.
    • Tim Holden won his last race with 51 percent in a newly reapportioned district against another incumbent.
    • Southern and Western states are growing so much faster than the rest of the country that several are expected to grab House seats from the Northeast and Midwest when Congress is reapportioned in 2010.
    • While communities and officials will honor long-standing hereditary rights to areas of land traditionally claimed by a given family, misused or abandoned land may be reapportioned for better use.
    • After the next census is taken, Congress would reapportion seats based on population and revert to 435 as established in 1911.
    • The right-to-die debate sidesteps the real issue: A need to reapportion care
    • Redistricting exists for the purpose of reapportioning voters among political districts to account for population shifts.
    • Others did not seem to know about the second-round process where the votes that went to small parties that did not get seats would be reapportioned to the parties that did win.
    • Members of reapportioned legislatures, particularly those from previously underrepresented areas adamantly opposed any retreat from ‘one man, one vote.’

Derivatives

  • reapportionment

  • nounˌriːəˈpɔːʃnm(ə)ntˌriəˈpɔrʃ(ə)nmənt
    • It's not news, of course, that the Supreme Court's one-person, one-vote standard applies to reapportionments but not to the selection of presidents.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This became a definite go when he lost all the legislative races, and used reapportionment as the excuse.
      • The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected.
      • His district is going through reapportionment.
      • It's worth going back and reading or rereading the reasons Justice Frankfurter gave for opposing judicial reapportionment, back in 1962.
 
 

Definition of reapportion in US English:

reapportion

verbˌriəˈpɔrʃ(ə)nˌrēəˈpôrSH(ə)n
[with object]
  • Assign or distribute (something) again or in a different way.

    he received approval for constitutional amendments which reapportioned the seats
    a clearing house would have to be set up to reapportion VAT revenue
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Southern and Western states are growing so much faster than the rest of the country that several are expected to grab House seats from the Northeast and Midwest when Congress is reapportioned in 2010.
    • It is clear that there must now be a reapportioning of power.
    • Others did not seem to know about the second-round process where the votes that went to small parties that did not get seats would be reapportioned to the parties that did win.
    • Tim Holden won his last race with 51 percent in a newly reapportioned district against another incumbent.
    • Frequent formation changes, shaped by both the enemy and terrain, forced the commander to constantly reapportion fires to facilitate security.
    • Walls that slide on tracks, platform floors, and pivoting panels are some of the devices used to reapportion the space while maintaining its flexible nature.
    • While communities and officials will honor long-standing hereditary rights to areas of land traditionally claimed by a given family, misused or abandoned land may be reapportioned for better use.
    • After the next census is taken, Congress would reapportion seats based on population and revert to 435 as established in 1911.
    • The only hope is that the U.S. Supreme Court will recognize that the prime purpose of the census every 10 years is to reapportion the states and that any reapportionment beyond the first one is unconstitutional.
    • The Supreme Court played a key role in immigration reform with its rulings that congressional districts must be reapportioned.
    • Sims transformed the American political scene by requiring states to reapportion their legislatures on the basis of ‘one person, one vote.’
    • When two gas molecules collide, they can reapportion their energy in any way that leaves the total unchanged.
    • Members of reapportioned legislatures, particularly those from previously underrepresented areas adamantly opposed any retreat from ‘one man, one vote.’
    • The right-to-die debate sidesteps the real issue: A need to reapportion care
    • Redistricting exists for the purpose of reapportioning voters among political districts to account for population shifts.
    • It is a product of revolutionary reform, adopted in 1967 by a newly reapportioned Legislature elected under a reapportionment plan imposed by order of the federal court.
    • Then the bear shifted, almost as if it knew that Madeline was uncomfortable, reapportioning its bulk so that her ribs weren't crushed.
    • States and boundaries disappear while new ones emerge, the world is being reapportioned and nobody, least of all the German government, is prepared to stay on the sidelines.
    • Yeah, I guess there'll have to be a reapportioning of duties, as all the old ones went the way of the city.
    • Note, however, how these gains were reapportioned to the stable asset classes which more than doubled in the right hand case above.
 
 
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