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
Examples of apportionment in a Sentence
the apportionment of the estate will happen this Friday
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The text was pretty simple: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Under the apportionment process, agencies are given limited authority to spend funding allocated by Congress in installments.
—Aris Folley, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
The judge also said voters have legal standing to sue to have their votes be counted and given equal weight, like when a voter in a district that has a disproportionately large population has standing to challenge the apportionment.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
To some, the IRS’s willingness to let Coca-Cola compute its U.S. tax liability using a permissive apportionment method like the 10-50-50 formula for two decades might sound like a good thing.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Under the apportionment process, agencies are given limited authority to spend funding allocated by Congress in installments.
—Aris Folley, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
The judge also said voters have legal standing to sue to have their votes be counted and given equal weight, like when a voter in a district that has a disproportionately large population has standing to challenge the apportionment.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
To some, the IRS’s willingness to let Coca-Cola compute its U.S. tax liability using a permissive apportionment method like the 10-50-50 formula for two decades might sound like a good thing.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
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 6 May. 2025.
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