apportionment.

The division of a total into shares allocated to people, groups, or purposes.

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Words that belong together

• apportionment of costs
• seat apportionment

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The dispute concerned the apportionment of maintenance costs.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common.