apportionment

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsallotmentapportioningallocationparcelingparcellingassignation

   Broaderdistribution

   Narrowergrantreallotmentdealrationingparcel

Other forms of apportionment

plural

apportionments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about apportionment

What does apportionment mean?

apportionment means "the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan".

How many syllables are in apportionment?

apportionment has 4 syllables: ap-por-tion-ment. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /əˈpɔɹʃənmənt/.

What is another word for apportionment?

Close synonyms include allotment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apportionment a common word?

apportionment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with apportionment?

1 word rhymes with apportionment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.