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apportionment

/uh-pawr-shuhn-muhnt, uh-pohr-/US // əˈpɔr ʃən mənt, əˈpoʊr- //UK // (əˈpɔːʃənmənt) //

分摊,分摊比例,分摊数,分摊费用

Related Words

allocation分配,配置,分配方案,分配方式division划分,部门,分工,分化portion部分,一部分,份额,部分内容appropriation拨款,批款,划拨,拨出的款项partition分区,隔断,分割区,分割

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounallotment
Synonyms
allocation分配,配置,分配方案,分配方式appropriation拨款,批款,划拨,拨出的款项division划分,部门,分工,分化partition分区,隔断,分割区,分割portion部分,一部分,份额,部分内容

Examples

  • The secretary will receive state population totals and apportionment results at the same time, a Census Bureau spokesperson said.

  • The 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.

  • In addition to apportionment, decennial census data is used to determine federal funding and state redistricting for a decade.

  • In addition to apportionment, decennial census data is used to determine a decade’s worth of federal funding and state redistricting.

  • Koh’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.

  • The apportionment of blame, or prolonged discussion of the matter, is out of place in a biography of Nelson.

  • Evidence was given that the other conspirators had agreed upon the apportionment among themselves of the high offices of State.

  • Every difficult question in the apportionment of these separate accounts should be talked over thoroughly.

  • It conveys a valuable lesson as to the apportionment of praise and blame.

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