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单词 repartition
释义 repartition|riːpɑː-, rɛpəˈtɪʃən|
[ad. L. type *repartitiōn-em: see re- and partition n., and cf. F. répartition (1690).]
1. Partition, distribution, allotment (in former use esp. of troops or military quarters).
1555Eden Decades 240 The reparticion and diuision of the Indies and newe worlde betwene the Spanyardes and Portugales.1598Barret Theor. Warres iv. iv. 111 Of this repartition he is to giue an order in writing vnto the Captaines of euerie Companie.1611G. Blundell in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 97 If it be possible to get my company upon that repartition, my mind would be very much quieted.1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2827/1 They..are not like to obtain any alteration in the Repartition that is made of the Winter quarters for the said Troops.1732Swift Corr. Wks. 1841 III. 668 The Irish were parcelled out among the many armies entertained by the French King... This repartition was very mortifying to them.1755N. Magens Insurances I. 69 This is the Sum, whereon the Repartition ought to be made; all the particular Goods bearing their neat Proportion.1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 219 No fair repartition of burthens upon all the orders could possibly restore them.1848Tait's Mag. XV. 828 Property and its follies,..its repartition in the hands of classes.1861Mill Utilit. v. 87 The standards of justice to which reference is made in discussing the repartition of taxation.
b. With a and pl. An instance of this.
1656North's Plutarch, Tamberlain 45, I shall omit the several manners of repartitions of his Quarters.1663Gerbier Counsel 23 The good Surveyour doth contrive the repartitions of his ground-plot, so as most of the necessary Servants may be lodged in the first ground story.1723Pres. St. Russia I. 53 Each Governor makes Repartitions according to the Number of Farms in his Government.1849Mill Ess. (1859) II. 394 An adequate amount of the fruits of industry, combined with a just repartition of them.1882Pall Mall G. 13 Jan. 2/2 To regulate a just repartition of work and salary.
2. A fresh distribution or allotment.
1835Thirlwall Greece xi. II. 11 The dismemberment of a capital, and its repartition into a number of rural communities.1861G. Smith Irish Hist. 25 There was nothing in Kentish gavelkind analogous to the Irish repartition.
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