Apportionment

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]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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