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Princeton's WordNet

  1. reapportion, reallocateverb

    allocate, distribute, or apportion anew

    "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data"

Wiktionary

  1. reallocateverb

    To change the user or purpose for which a resource is allocated.

  2. reallocateverb

    To allocate again.

ChatGPT

  1. reallocate

    To reallocate means to distribute or apportion something, such as resources or funds, in a different way or for a different purpose than they were previously designated. This often involves changing the location, use, or availability of the allocated item or resource.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of reallocate in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of reallocate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of reallocate in a Sentence

  1. Ron Johnson:

    The first thing you do is support law enforcement, and unfortunately, the lieutenant governor has not done that. He has a record of wanting to defund the police – I know he doesn’t necessarily use that word, but he has a long history of being supported by people leading the effort to defund, he uses code words. Like Cori Bush said, talks about ‘reallocate over bloated police budgets.’ He said it pains him to see fully funded police budgets. That’s his views.

  2. Brian Kemp:

    Miss Abrams on CNN got asked the question, would she defund the police? And she said, ‘Yes, we have to reallocate resources.’ That means defunding the police. She proposed in 2018, eliminating cash bail.

  3. Akin Demehin:

    Some [ hospitals ] simply are not in a position to reallocate resources for providing monoclonal antibody treatments.

  4. Stacey Abrams:

    We have to reallocate resources, so, yes, if there is a moment where resources are so tight that we have to choose between whether we murder Black people or serve Black people, then absolutely: Our choice must be service.

  5. Lisa Dadio:

    You can no longer say we're going to continue to defund or reallocate when everybody is being impacted by the rise in crime. I think that there is a benefit to it in that we have other services that can respond to other calls.

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