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Apportionment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan wordnet
  3. 3
    The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states. US
  4. 4
    The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states. US

Etymology

From apportion + -ment.

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