Found 2 items, similar to APPORTIONMENT.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: apportionment apportionment n : the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; “the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state” [syn: allotment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Apportionment Apportionment \Ap*por"tion*ment\, n. [Cf. F. apportionnement, LL. apportionamentum.] The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. --A. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]