apportionment
apportionment noun: the act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
Noun
apportionment (plural apportionments)
- The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
- 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.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- 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.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 218
- The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
- The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
apportionment meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic
apportionment in Tamil
- பகிர்மானம், பகுத்தளித்தல், ஒதுக்கியளி, பங்கீடு செய், பகுத்துக் கொடுத்தல், பகுத்துக்கொடுத்தல்
apportionment in Urdu
- بٹوارہ, تقسیم
apportionment in Malayalam
- apportionment
- അംശനം aṁśanaṁ
apportionment in Arabic
- The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned
- تَوَزُّع tawazzuʕ
More languagesFewer languages
- apportionment in Indonesian
- alokasi kursi
Forms of apportionment
| plural | apportionments |
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Origin of apportionment
From apportion + -ment.
Words formed from apportionment
Questions about apportionment
- What does apportionment mean?
- Apportionment means the act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
- What is apportionment in Tamil?
- Apportionment in Tamil is பகிர்மானம், பகுத்தளித்தல், ஒதுக்கியளி. See Apportionment meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is apportionment?
- Apportionment is a noun.
- What is the plural of apportionment?
- The plural of apportionment is apportionments.
Words near apportionment in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: apportionment (page history and authors); apportionment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); apportionment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അംശനം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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