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What is the noun for reapportionment?

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reapportionment
  1. The act of reapportioning; a second or subsequent apportionment.
  2. (politics) Reassignment of representation in a legislature, especially of U.S. House of Representative seats, in accord with changes in the census population determination.
  3. Examples:
    1. “This became a definite go when he lost all the legislative races, and used reapportionment as the excuse.”
      “Lower tax levels, along with any reapportionment of the various types of taxation, are a mistake if market-driven.”
      “A reapportionment act was therefore to be expected from the next legislature.”
reapportionments
  1. plural of reapportionment
  2. Examples:
    1. “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.”
      “As had occurred in the previous three decennial reapportionments, the secretary of state drew the districts after the Legislature failed to agree on a plan.”
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