apportionment

English

Etymology

From apportion +‎ -ment.

Noun

apportionment (plural apportionments)

1. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.

   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 218:

     The names of the prayers are given above the tunes, but there is no indication of apportionment of the text to the phrases and notes of the melody.

2. (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
3. (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.

Derived terms

• malapportionment

Translations

The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned

• Arabic: تَوَزُّع m (tawazzuʕ)
• Esperanto: onigo
• French: partage (fr) m, répartition (fr) f
• German: Aufteilung (de) f, Betragserteilung f, Umlage (de) f, Umlegung f
• Polish: aport (pl) m
• Portuguese: repartição (pt) f
• Romanian: repartizare (ro) f
• Spanish: aporcionamiento m, prorrateo (es) m, distribución (es) f, racionamiento (es) m, reparto (es) m
• Turkish: bölüştürme (tr), paylaştırma (tr), (commerce) tahsis (tr), (commerce) tevzi (tr)

(US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states

• Indonesian: alokasi kursi

(US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states

• German: Verteilung (de) f
• Turkish: paylaştırma (tr)