APPORTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apportion mean? 

• APPORTION (verb)
  The verb APPORTION has 2 senses:

1. distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose

2. give out as one's portion or share

  Familiarity information: APPORTION used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPORTION (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they apportion    ... he / she / it apportions   
Past simple: apportioned   
Past participle: apportioned   
-ing form: apportioning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

allocate; apportion

Context example:

I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip

Hypernyms (to "apportion" is one way to...):

allot; assign; portion (give out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "apportion"):

reallocate; reapportion (allocate, distribute, or apportion anew)

ration; ration out (distribute in rations, as in the army)

award; present (give, especially as an honor or reward)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

apportionable (capable of being distributed)

apportionment (the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give out as one's portion or share

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

apportion; deal; divvy up; portion out; share

Hypernyms (to "apportion" is one way to...):

distribute; give out; hand out; pass out (give to several people)

"Apportion" entails doing...:

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

apportionable (capable of being distributed)

 Context examples 

The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning.

(Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)

The gross volume of the apportioned exposure.

(Exposure Total Volume Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

The unit of measure for the gross volume of the apportioned exposure.

(Exposure Total Volume Administration Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Of this preparation a tolerably abundant plateful was apportioned to each pupil.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Qualifier for anatomical location or specimen further detailing the portion or totality, which means arrangement of, or apportioning of an entity.

(CDISC SDTM Portion/Totality Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

"It is true that meat be apportioned me and mine," he said.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The unfortunate delay can be apportioned between a blundering pilot and an intrusive sandbank.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A person or group with authority to allot or deal out or apportion.

(Distributor, NCI Thesaurus)

Categories into which numbers are apportioned by the conventions of algebraic number theory.

(Number Type, NCI Thesaurus)

It is not too much to say that it will rank level with my own when the final credit of this business comes to be apportioned.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)