apportionment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
    — This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
  2. The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states. US
  3. The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states. US

词形变化

apportionments plural

词汇关系

衍生词
malapportionment

词源

Etymology tree
English apportion
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English apportionment
From apportion + -ment.
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