[はいふ, haifu] (n, vs) allocation; apportionment; distribution [Add to Longdo]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
apportionment
n 1: the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning;
distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of
seats in the House of Representatives is based on the
relative population of each state" [syn: {allotment},
{apportionment}, {apportioning}, {allocation}, {parceling},
{parcelling}, {assignation}]
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