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apportionment

[ uh-pawr-shuhn-muhnt, uh-pohr- ]

noun

  1. the act of apportioning.
  2. the determination of the number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives according to the proportion of the population of each state to the total population of the U.S.
  3. the apportioning of members of any other legislative body.


apportionment

  1. The allocation of seats in a legislature or of taxes according to a plan. In the United States Congress , for example, the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state, whereas the apportionment in the Senate is based on equal representation for every state. ( See also gerrymander .)


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Other Words From

  • nonap·portion·ment noun
  • proap·portion·ment adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of apportionment1

First recorded in 1620–30; apportion + -ment
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Example Sentences

The secretary will receive state population totals and apportionment results at the same time, a Census Bureau spokesperson said.

The administration has pushed the Census Bureau to produce state population totals in time for the president to try to exclude undocumented immigrants from apportionment before he leaves office.

In addition to apportionment, decennial census data is used to determine federal funding and state redistricting for a decade.

In addition to apportionment, decennial census data is used to determine a decade’s worth of federal funding and state redistricting.

Koh’s preliminary injunction suspended that end-of-the-year deadline, giving Census Bureau statisticians time to crunch the numbers for apportionment from the start of November until the end of next April, for the time being.

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We are half-jokingly invited to envision apportionment by race or by income.

Had such an apportionment been in place in 2000, Al Gore would have won the electoral college vote and become president.

The same superiority was accorded to Newport in the apportionment of state officers, five of whom were required to live there.

The apportionment of blame, or prolonged discussion of the matter, is out of place in a biography of Nelson.

Evidence was given that the other conspirators had agreed upon the apportionment among themselves of the high offices of State.

Every difficult question in the apportionment of these separate accounts should be talked over thoroughly.

It conveys a valuable lesson as to the apportionment of praise and blame.

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