REALLOCATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does reallocation mean?
• REALLOCATION (noun)
The noun REALLOCATION has 2 senses:
1. a share that has been allocated again
2. a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
Familiarity information: REALLOCATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REALLOCATION (noun)
Meaning:
A share that has been allocated again
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("reallocation" is a kind of...):
allocation; allotment (a share set aside for a specific purpose)
Meaning:
A new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
reallotment; reapportionment; reallocation
Hypernyms ("reallocation" is a kind of...):
allocation; allotment; apportioning; apportionment; assignation; parceling; parcelling (the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reallocation"):
reshuffle (a redistribution of something)
