different between apportionment vs reapportionment

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apportion +? -ment

apportionment (plural apportionments)

The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
(US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
(US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.

c. 1930 reapportion +? -ment

reapportionment (countable and uncountable, plural reapportionments)

The act of reapportioning; a second or subsequent apportionment.
(US, politics) Reassignment of representation in a legislature, especially of U.S. House of Representative seats, in accord with changes in the census population determination.

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