as in distribution
the act or process of giving out something to each member of a group the apportionment of the estate will happen this Friday

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Recent Examples of apportionment 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 The jury assigned apportionment of fault as follows: Newell- 63%, Sunbeam- 27%, and Ms. Perez- 10%. Sponsored Content, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025 Trump's second term is set to end before final decisions have to be made on what questions the 2030 census will ask and who ends up getting included in the apportionment counts. Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 20 Jan. 2025 In a 2020 article, the Pew Research Center examined how removing unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 census apportionment count could affect the reapportionment of House seats. Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for apportionment
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distribution
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    Alan Schwarz, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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    JD Barker, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025

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“Apportionment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apportionment. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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