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apportionments

apportionments is the plural of apportionment.

Meaning of apportionment

Noun

apportionment (plural apportionments)

  1. 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
  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.

Questions about apportionments

What is apportionments the plural of?
Apportionments is the plural of apportionment.

Words near apportionments in the dictionary

  1. apportionest
  2. apportioneth
  3. apportioning
  4. apportionings
  5. apportionment
  6. apportionments
  7. apportions
  8. apports
  9. apposability
  10. apposable
  11. appose

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