Meaning of apportionment in English
(Definition of apportionment from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of apportionment
apportionment
It seems that this particular caller would have a problem with the apportionment regardless of the size.
From NPR
County apportionment increased to 20 percent and city apportionment increased to 12 percent.
From OregonLive.com
The challenges won't affect congressional apportionment and redistricting; revisions to the count don't affect the redrawing of political boundaries.
From NOLA.com
But what the state can dictate are the terms by which districts receive their apportionment of state funding.
From OregonLive.com
The information was then integrated with the outcome of a previous source apportionment study.
From Phys.Org
To begin with, supporters were internally divided about how the unicameral proposal should address the issue of apportionment.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
In fact, however, apportionment raised serious obstacles to direct taxation.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
I do not argue that apportionments should be based on actual votes cast rather than population.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Not only does this evidence of legislative deference directly undermine longstanding assertions but it suggests that rural advantages in apportionment may not have significantly affected state policy toward urban places.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Thus, the decisions of states to retain the bicameral structure of their legislatures was intimately related to apportionment politics, even if their original decision to adopt it was not.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The policyholder pays monthly premiums that supply a fi nancial investment in which the customer may choose the apportionment of his funds according to the portfolio offered to him.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Their functions involved observation of and control over the apportionment of taxes and their collection from the settled and nomad population, including taxes on trade and on land.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Or, given the great rural biases in legislative apportionment well into the twentieth century, rural and suburban legislators could simply outvote even a determined and united big-city delegation.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
And it is the right apportionment of time to these various duties which constitutes its true economy.
From Project Gutenberg
A wise economy is nowhere more conspicuous than in a systematic apportionment of time to different pursuits.
From Project Gutenberg
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