Definitions for apportionment

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apportionment ap·por·tion·ment

Spelling: [uh-pawr-shuh n-muh nt, uh

IPA: /əˈpɔr ʃən mənt, əˈpoʊr-/

Apportionment is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 1279 anagrams from letters in apportionment (aeimnnoopprtt).

Definitions for apportionment

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.

Origin of apportionment

First recorded in 1620-30; apportion + -ment

Examples for apportionment

At times this apportionment is correct, and at other times not.

See Schuyler i, 286 on the apportionment of water to Samarkand and Bukhr.

There was also some difficulty over the apportionment of the debt.

It is the apportionment of 1820, formed on a population of ten millions.

What is the principle of apportionment of the members of each house?

I knew there would be no trouble in collecting this city's apportionment.

The apportionment seems to have had the characteristics of ribbon cake.

(b) Changes in the apportionment of the target among the subdivisions.

The present apportionment is one committeeman for every fifteen votes.

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