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Wiktionary
- n. The act of reallocating; a second or subsequent allocation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a share that has been allocated again
- n. a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
Examples
“But the structural reallocation is clearly pushing older workers into long-term unemployment.”
The Wall Street Journal: How the Fed Is Holding Back Recovery
“The fourth is a near-term reallocation of capital flows.”
“The stimuli, in our assessment, have been extremely inefficient: on the fiscal side, programs like cash-for-clunkers do little more than provide a short-term reallocation of spending.”
“Of course, many of the people promoting the following view are fixed income sorts who would benefit from a long-term reallocation of money from equities to bonds, but that doesn't make it any less provocative a view.”
“Growers haven't come out against the idea of reallocation of the quotas, but they are against an overall increase in total imports.”
The Wall Street Journal: Price Gap Puts Spice in Sugar-Quota Fight
“But if in military terms the reallocation of a few Nato bases was just a small "tactical" matter it was an immense turning point for the British mission in Helmand, and a moment of relief as well as regret.”
The Guardian: Sangin – town that became a death trap for UK soldiers – passed to US
“Third is biofuels: the response to climate change, namely the reallocation of huge acreages previously used to grow corn for animal feed and human consumption to grow corn and sugar for ethanol, has robbed the world market of vast tracts of food-producing farmland.”
“That includes $2.2 million in what the league calls reallocation credits'' from the last capped year, 2009, when the Eagles didn't spend to the cap, and the $3 million every team can borrow from a future cap year to support veteran player costs this season”
“The reallocation is a relief to some people, who read about the pergola expense in The San Diego Union-Tribune.”
“Independent economic analysis projects the reallocation is a substantially better investment of this existing tax than the allocation established in 1988. 58.”
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