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Webster 1913 Edition

Apportionment

Ap-por′tion-ment

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
apportionnement
, LL.
apportionamentum
.]
The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
A. Hamilton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Apportionment

APPO'RTIONMENT

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Noun.
The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a dividing and assigning to each proprietor his just portion of an undivided right or property.

Definition 2024

apportionment

apportionment

English

Noun

apportionment ‎(plural apportionments)

  1. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
      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. (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
  3. (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.

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