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apportionment |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Apportionment \Ap*por"tion*ment\, n. [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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: apportionment n : the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative populaton of each state" [syn: {allotment}, {apportioning}, {allocation}, {parceling}, {parcelling}]
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