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REALLOT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
They were realloted additional farm land
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "reallot" is one way to...):
administer; allot; deal; deal out; dish out; dispense; distribute; dole out; lot; mete out; parcel out; shell out (administer or bestow, as in small portions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Derivation:
reallotment (a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results))