apportionment
Noun
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Noun
apportionment (plural apportionments)
- The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0108 ↗:
- 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.
- French: partage, répartition
- German: Aufteilung, Betragserteilung, Umlage, Umlegung
- Portuguese: repartição
- Spanish: aporcionamiento, prorrateo, distribución, racionamiento, reparto
- German: Verteilung
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