apportionment
noun
ap·por·tion·ment
ə-ˈpȯr-shən-mənt 
: an act or result of apportioning
especially
: the apportioning of representatives or taxes among the states according to U.S. law
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the apportionment of the estate will happen this Friday
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Service Business Trap There are other apportionment rules for different types of businesses.
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Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
The 2020 Census faced significant scrutiny after President Donald Trump, in his first term, attempted to enhance review of citizenship status in the questionnaire and to exclude undocumented people from apportionment figures, although both policies were ruled against by the Supreme Court.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
But one obvious answer is that attention is a limited resource, and its apportionment to Iran and Hezbollah, in preference to Hamas and the Palestinian issue near at hand, mirrored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s worldview.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025
This covert backroom apportionment, fuelled by unrestrained corruption and carried out in the name of ethnosectarian balancing, has delegitimized the post-2003 governance of Iraq and alienated the vast majority of the population from the ruling elite.
—Toby Dodge, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2018
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Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
The 2020 Census faced significant scrutiny after President Donald Trump, in his first term, attempted to enhance review of citizenship status in the questionnaire and to exclude undocumented people from apportionment figures, although both policies were ruled against by the Supreme Court.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
But one obvious answer is that attention is a limited resource, and its apportionment to Iran and Hezbollah, in preference to Hamas and the Palestinian issue near at hand, mirrored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s worldview.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025
This covert backroom apportionment, fuelled by unrestrained corruption and carried out in the name of ethnosectarian balancing, has delegitimized the post-2003 governance of Iraq and alienated the vast majority of the population from the ruling elite.
—Toby Dodge, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2018
See All Example Sentences for apportionment
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“Apportionment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apportionment. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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