apportionment
noun
ap·por·tion·ment
ə-ˈpȯr-shən-mənt 
: an act or result of apportioning
especially
: the apportioning of representatives or taxes among the states according to U.S. law
Examples of apportionment in a Sentence
the apportionment of the estate will happen this Friday
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The judge also said voters have legal standing to sue to have their votes be counted and given equal weight, like when a voter in a district that has a disproportionately large population has standing to challenge the apportionment.
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Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
To some, the IRS’s willingness to let Coca-Cola compute its U.S. tax liability using a permissive apportionment method like the 10-50-50 formula for two decades might sound like a good thing.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
The jury assigned apportionment of fault as follows: Newell- 63%, Sunbeam- 27%, and Ms. Perez- 10%.
—Sponsored Content, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
Trump's second term is set to end before final decisions have to be made on what questions the 2030 census will ask and who ends up getting included in the apportionment counts.
—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 20 Jan. 2025
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Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
To some, the IRS’s willingness to let Coca-Cola compute its U.S. tax liability using a permissive apportionment method like the 10-50-50 formula for two decades might sound like a good thing.
—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
The jury assigned apportionment of fault as follows: Newell- 63%, Sunbeam- 27%, and Ms. Perez- 10%.
—Sponsored Content, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
Trump's second term is set to end before final decisions have to be made on what questions the 2030 census will ask and who ends up getting included in the apportionment counts.
—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 20 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for apportionment
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“Apportionment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apportionment. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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