Synonyms for apportionment:
noun allotment
Examples of uses:
The secretary will receive state population totals and apportionment results at the same time, a Census Bureau spokesperson said.
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Title: Census Bureau aims to deliver state population totals by April 30, author: Brittany Mayes, url: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/27/census-delay-apportionment-april/
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.
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Title: House panel, seeking census documents, subpoenas Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, author: Tara Bahrampour, url: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/house-panel-seeking-census-documents-subpoenas-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross/2020/12/10/2c145bd6-3b38-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html
In addition to apportionment, decennial census data is used to determine federal funding and state redistricting for a decade.
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Title: Lawmaker assails Commerce Dept. over failure to respond to questions about 2020 Census anomalies, author: Tara Bahrampour, url: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/lawmaker-assails-commerce-dept-over-failure-to-respond-to-questions-about-2020-census-anomalies/2020/12/03/5c3d8a88-357c-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html
In addition to apportionment, decennial census data is used to determine a decade’s worth of federal funding and state redistricting.
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Title: Anomalies plague more than 1 million census records, lawmaker says, author: Tara Bahrampour, url: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/lawmaker-says-anomalies-plague-more-than-1-million-census-records/2020/12/02/1836f4a2-34ee-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html
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.
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Title: Census must continue for another month, judge says, author: Verne Kopytoff, url: https://fortune.com/2020/09/25/census-must-continue-another-month-judge/
The same superiority was accorded to Newport in the apportionment of state officers, five of whom were required to live there.
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Title: A short history of Rhode Island, author: George Washington Greene, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44955/44955-h/44955-h.htm
The apportionment of blame, or prolonged discussion of the matter, is out of place in a biography of Nelson.
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Title: The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2), author: A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16914/16914-h/16914-h.htm
Evidence was given that the other conspirators had agreed upon the apportionment among themselves of the high offices of State.
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Title: Sir Walter Ralegh, author: William Stebbing, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25029/25029-h/25029-h.htm
Every difficult question in the apportionment of these separate accounts should be talked over thoroughly.
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Title: The American Country Girl, author: Martha Foote Crow, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32949/32949-h/32949-h.htm
It conveys a valuable lesson as to the apportionment of praise and blame.
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Title: Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume III (of 4), author: George Grote, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40437/40437-h/40437-h.htm
