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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reapportion.

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Examples

  • Don't the uber-wealthy all have well paid accountants that ensure all financial loss is "reapportioned"?

    Hillary Raised $22 Million In April 2009

  • If they don't do it in 2010, they will have lost their chance for a long time because the corrupt, crooked, lying liberals will have reapportioned based on a phony 2010 census.

    Cheney makes big 2010 prediction 2009

  • Many noted the six House seats and electoral votes that will be reapportioned to states carried by John McCain from states carried by Barack Obama.

    The Great Lone Star Migration Michael Barone 2011

  • Of the states that will be reapportioned, either gaining or losing Congressmen, Republicans now control a majority.

    What made the Democrats’ Loss even worse 2010

  • Districts more populousUnder the Constitution, seats in the House of Representatives are reapportioned to states every 10 years according to their Census population.

    Size matters, lawsuit says of U.S. House 2010

  • The current NFL system is not a pure meritocracy where cash is simply reapportioned to those playing at the highest levels.

    Conflict brewing in Cortland Peter Schaffer 2010

  • The administrative units of the Cape were occasionally reapportioned during both the VOC and the British periods of rule.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Districts more populousUnder the Constitution, seats in the House of Representatives are reapportioned to states every 10 years according to their Census population.

    Size matters, lawsuit says of U.S. House 2010

  • But once states began to realize cost-offsets from criminal justice and prison expenditures, state funding can be reapportioned to expand and sustain Drug Courts.

    Gen. Barry McCaffrey: Breaking Our Addiction to Prison 2009

  • Iraq & Afghanistan both have certain social conflict traits in common: tribal militias & politics, continuous history of tribalistic power struggles, previous rule by a dominant ethnic/religious sect, and overthrow of that ruling sect, followed by the spoils of the new order being reapportioned, followed by insurgent activity, and the sometime exploitation of the new order to settle old tribal scores.

    Robert Naiman: Is Team Obama Really Rethinking Afghanistan? 2009

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