reapportioned

verb

past tense of reapportion
as in reallocated

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  1. apportioned
  2. allocated
  3. distributed
  4. dispensed
  5. divided
  6. prorated
  7. administered
  8. allotted
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  • Parties with less than 5% of the vote are excluded from the legislature, with their votes apportioned to the larger parties.
    — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Because the tax was not apportioned among the states as the Constitution required, those provisions were unconstitutional.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
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  • The amount of time, money and resources being allocated to developing new cell and gene therapies indicates that the market will continue its rapid growth.
    — Jigar Thakkar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The deal has also been announced at a time when the NIH has been struggling to issue sufficient grants to use the money that Congress allocated to it.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of allocated
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  • In a letter sent to Silver and distributed as a press release, the Clippers stated the league did not give the team a fair shake in the investigation.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Initially, the group aired jingles on the radio and distributed flyers around Ife, stressing the importance of early detection.
    — Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
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Verb
  • Stephen Weizenecker, an Atlanta attorney who works on film and TV tax credits, said in recent years that North Carolina has occasionally taken unused money from previous years and dispensed it in a subsequent fiscal year.
    — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Inside its Equipment Innovation Center in Atlanta, a massive television screen displays real-time data showing what drinks dispensed by the Freestyle are trending, what time of day and where — from the region to the type of business.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026
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  • The large-scale protests might have signaled to Beijing that the Hong Kong public was becoming more politically divided and that Tung was losing control.
    — Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Like the public writ large, the House of Representatives and the Senate are divided so deeply that Americans don’t have confidence in their ability to make hard choices.
    — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026
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  • Full refund before your first privacy report, then prorated based on unused time in the subscription.
    — Brian Sloan, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Awards for short-term training will likely be prorated for the program's length.
    — Cory Turner, NPR, 10 June 2026
Definition of prorated
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  • The funding is administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a non-profit founded in 1955 to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The census, which is administered every 10 years and is next set for 2030, is also considering asking about each respondent’s citizenship, a departure from past practice, which could discourage the participation of immigrants.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of administered
Verb
  • The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, which covers an area just outside New Orleans and was allotted the highest amount — nearly $4 million through 2025 — did not respond to more than a dozen calls and emails.
    — Aneri Pattani — KFF Health News, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026
  • For example, the original plan by the department’s consultant assumed that the park would have access to a sewer main and allotted about $76,000 for a routine sewer connection.
    — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of allotted
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