apportionment
the act of apportioning.
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.
the apportioning of members of any other legislative body.
Origin of apportionment
1Other words from apportionment
- non·ap·por·tion·ment, noun
- pro·ap·por·tion·ment, adjective
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How to use apportionment in a sentence
The secretary will receive state population totals and apportionment results at the same time, a Census Bureau spokesperson said.
Census Bureau aims to deliver state population totals by April 30 | Brittany Mayes | January 27, 2021 | Washington PostThe administration has pushed the Census Bureau to produce state population totals in time for the president to try to exclude undocumented immigrants from apportionment before he leaves office.
House panel, seeking census documents, subpoenas Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross | Tara Bahrampour | December 10, 2020 | Washington PostIn addition to apportionment, decennial census data is used to determine federal funding and state redistricting for a decade.
Lawmaker assails Commerce Dept. over failure to respond to questions about 2020 Census anomalies | Tara Bahrampour | December 3, 2020 | Washington PostIn addition to apportionment, decennial census data is used to determine a decade’s worth of federal funding and state redistricting.
Anomalies plague more than 1 million census records, lawmaker says | Tara Bahrampour | December 3, 2020 | Washington PostKoh’s preliminary injunction suspended that end-of-the-year deadline, giving Census Bureau statisticians time to crunch the numbers for apportionment from the start of November until the end of next April, for the time being.
We are half-jokingly invited to envision apportionment by race or by income.
Had such an apportionment been in place in 2000, Al Gore would have won the electoral college vote and become president.
The same superiority was accorded to Newport in the apportionment of state officers, five of whom were required to live there.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington GreeneThe apportionment of blame, or prolonged discussion of the matter, is out of place in a biography of Nelson.
The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) | A. T. (Alfred Thayer) MahanEvidence was given that the other conspirators had agreed upon the apportionment among themselves of the high offices of State.
Sir Walter Ralegh | William StebbingEvery difficult question in the apportionment of these separate accounts should be talked over thoroughly.
The American Country Girl | Martha Foote CrowIt conveys a valuable lesson as to the apportionment of praise and blame.
British Dictionary definitions for apportionment
/ (əˈpɔːʃənmənt) /
the act of apportioning
US government the proportional distribution of the seats in a legislative body, esp the House of Representatives, on the basis of population
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Cultural definitions for apportionment
The allocation of seats in a legislature or of taxes according to a plan. In the United States Congress, for example, the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state, whereas the apportionment in the Senate is based on equal representation for every state. (See also gerrymander.)
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