to change how much (of something) different people deserve or should be given; redistribute
The census results were used to reapportion seats in Congress.
Reapportioning farmland was not the real issue.
reapportion in American English
(ˌriəˈpɔrʃən)
verb transitive
to apportion again; specif., to change the representational distribution of (a legislature) so that each legislator represents approximately the same number of constituents
Derived forms
reapportionment (ˌreapˈportionment)
noun
Examples of 'reapportion' in a sentence
reapportion
It seemed to Tess that Pitts's mission in life was to reapportion the planet's stuff, buying it from one person and selling it to another.