“apportionment”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

apportionment

释义

apportionment|əˈpɔəʃənmənt|
[f. as prec. + -ment; also in med.L. apportionamentum and Fr. apportionnement.]
1. The action of distributing or allotting in proper proportion or suitable shares.
1628Coke On Litt. 149 b, The apportionment shall not be according to the quantity of the land, but according to the quality.1807W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. V. 210 By a wiser apportionment of the custom and excise duties.1852Grote Greece ii. lxxviii. X. 316 For the apportionment of houses and lands among the citizens.1861Mill Utilit. v. 85 The proper apportionment of punishment to offences.
2. The state or fact of being thus distributed.
1681Nevile Plato Rediv. 52 Wherever this apportionment of Lands came to be changed.1858Bright Sp. 27 Oct. (1876) 287 When the apportionment of the Members to the Constituencies approximates to a just arrangement.

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