Plural of apportionment; instances or results of dividing and distributing something fairly among groups.
Apportionment plus plural -s. Apportionment comes from apportion plus -ment suffix (from Latin -mentum). Common in legal and governmental language.
Congressional apportionments determine how many representatives each state gets—it happens every 10 years after the census, and it can shift enormous political power from one region to another based on population changes.
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