Apportionment

n. allocation, allotment

This article is about "apportionment" in law. See also apportionment (politics) The legal term apportionment (French apportionement; Med. Latin apportionamentum; derived from Latin portio, share) means distribution or allotment in proper shares. It is a term used in law in a variety of senses. Sometimes it is employed roughly and has no technical meaning; this indicates the distribution of a benefit (e.g. salvage or damages under the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, § 2), or liability (e.g. general average contributions, or tithe rent-charge), or the incidence of a duty (e.g. obligations as to the maintenance of highways).
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Noun
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"
(synonym) allotment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation
(hypernym) distribution
(hyponym) grant, subsidization, subsidisation
(derivation) allocate, apportion

(n.)
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.
  

(See also Passenger Facility Charge) Distribution of Airport Improvement Plan (AIP) funds from the Airport & Airways Trust Fund to airport sponsors based on enplanements or cargo landed weights. Also referred to as entitlement. (FAA11)