Apportionment vs Grant - What's the difference?
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The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
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*: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 .
(lb) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
(lb) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
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, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
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To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
* , Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":
To assent; to consent.
The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
(legal) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
(informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).
Apportionment is a related term of grant.
As a noun apportionment
is the act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.As a proper noun grant is
and a scottish clan name, from a nickname meaning "large".apportionment
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(wikipedia apportionment) (en noun)grant
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* graunt (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)page 548:
- He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner.
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- The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
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(en noun)- I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.''