In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
REALLOCATE
reapportion, reallocate
(verb) allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; “Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
reallocate (third-person singular simple present reallocates, present participle reallocating, simple past and past participle reallocated)
(transitive) To allocate (a resource) to another person or purpose.
(transitive) To allocate again.
Source: Wiktionary
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