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Meanings
Noun
the division or apportionment of something into shares
a statistical or mathematical distribution
Beyond the definition
Imagine a baker with a giant pie. One question is how the pie is shared: who gets which slice, and how much. That idea of sharing out parts is the heart of repartition. In formal English, it often means the distribution or division of something among people, groups, or places. In some contexts, it can also mean dividing something again in a new way.
You will often see it in serious discussions about land, power, money, resources, or population. For example, people may talk about the repartition of land after a political change, or about repartitioning a hard drive into new sections. The word has a formal tone and usually suggests a planned division rather than a casual split.
Repartition is a formal English word connected with the idea of dividing or sharing something out. Most often, it refers to the distribution or allocation of parts within a whole: how land, resources, costs, seats, or people are divided among different groups. In some uses, especially as a verb, it also means to divide something again or in a different way after an earlier division.
Historically, the word often appeared in political and geographic writing. After wars, treaties, or changes in power, governments might discuss the repartition of territory, meaning the formal division of land or borders. In this setting, the word points to an organized and often official process, not a simple or informal act.
The word can also be used more broadly for the sharing of resources, money, responsibilities, or representation. For example, a writer might describe the repartition of tax burdens among regions, or the repartition of seats in a governing body. In these cases, the focus is on who gets what share.
In technical use, especially in computing, the verb form is common. To repartition a hard drive means to divide it again into partitions, usually to change how storage space is organized. This is a clear example of the "divide again" sense.
The key idea is that repartition is about structured division. Sometimes it means the general distribution of shares, and sometimes it means doing that division again in a new form. In both cases, the word sounds formal and is most at home in political, legal, economic, geographic, and technical contexts.
Examples
- 1
Election
After the election, the new law changed the repartition of seats in parliament.
- 2
Contract costs
The contract set out the repartition of costs between the two companies.
- Usagerepartition of + thing between/among people
a formal way to talk about dividing it
- 3
Data storage
Before moving the files, the IT team repartitioned the hard drive.
- Domain
in technology, repartition can mean divide a drive or data again in a different way
See also
Similar
- redistribute
- reallocate
- redivide
Shades of meaning
- apportion
- redistrict
Contrast
Used with (collocations)
- repartition resources
- repartition data
- repartition territory
Word family
- repartitioning
- partition
Explore
- allocation
- load balancing
Forms and spellings
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Main spelling
- repartitionnoun