as in distribution
the act or process of giving out something to each member of a group
the apportionment of the estate will happen this Friday
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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.
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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
In a 2020 article, the Pew Research Center examined how removing unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 census apportionment count could affect the reapportionment of House seats.
—Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
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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
In a 2020 article, the Pew Research Center examined how removing unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 census apportionment count could affect the reapportionment of House seats.
—Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apportionment
distribution
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Some of our recommendations included: Reimagining central power distribution such as placement, resiliency to direct and secondary hazards, distributed generation and battery redundancy.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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On June 3, 2020, a grand jury returned an indictment charging Aguilar-Linares and nine others with narcotics distribution and money laundering offenses.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
23 May 2025
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“Apportionment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apportionment. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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