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apportion

[uh-pawr-shuhn, uh-pohr-]

verb (used with object)

to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.

Origin:
1565–75; < Middle French apportionner, equivalent to ap- ap-¹ + portionner to portion

Related forms

ap·por·tion·a·ble, adjective

ap·por·tion·er, noun

non·ap·por·tion·a·ble, adjective

un·ap·por·tioned, adjective

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Example Sentences

It is becoming a prime legal battleground in the war over how to apportion political power fairly between whites and blacks.

While the politicians apportion blame, voters are drawing their own conclusions.

Ambient air studies to apportion the sources of mutagens in non-industrial areas confirmed this prediction.

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It is becoming a prime legal battleground in the war over how to apportion political power fairly between whites and blacks.

While the politicians apportion blame, voters are drawing their own conclusions.

Ambient air studies to apportion the sources of mutagens in non-industrial areas confirmed this prediction.

It is too soon to point fingers at individuals or apportion blame precisely.

Courts seldom apportion blame between both parties.

It's hard to apportion individual blame for a dysfunctional system.

Their report will no doubt apportion blame and recommend changes in maintenance procedures.

To apportion blame to one partner or another in this marriage is, as ought by now to be evident, pointless.

But what remains constant is the need to apportion your budget carefully and shop with some understanding.

He said a lump-sum payment would also allow employees to decide how best to apportion the money.

It is not uncommon for consumers to apportion their equity accounts among several on-line and full-service brokers.

It is a complicated thing, they said, to apportion compensation in a bear market.

There was no federally engineered compensation fund, no blue-ribbon panel to apportion blame.

Still unresolved is how to apportion political power between the government and the rebels.

City officials are under legal mandates to provide housing, and officials say they have tried to apportion it fairly.

Of course, discount hurdles do not apportion costs among buyers with precision.

The intensely collaborative nature of a musical tends to be forgotten when time comes to apportion blame.

And to apportion proper credit for that, one has to peek behind the scenes.

India's central government may apportion budgets and write.

Monteilh said after the meeting that the city would likely try to apportion as much of the money.

Congress should move to slowly and ethically expand the research, and apportion the funds only if it's warranted.

He can intrude by asking to be told what no one will volunteer, or he can fairly apportion the wine.

Thus if you can't apportion goods through the market the government has to allocate.

Stop trying to apportion blame for this mess equally between the candidates.

It's almost as if they have a certain amount of creative energy and if they apportion it to things.

How to measure that and apportion damages is for a jury to decide.

What nobody needs is a study which seems to be designed to apportion blame in the direction of the mothers.

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World English Dictionary

apportion (əˈpɔːʃən)

—vb
	(tr) to divide, distribute, or assign appropriate shares of; allot proportionally: to apportion the blame

ap'portionable

—*adj*

ap'portioner

—n

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Word Origin & History

apportion

1570s, from M.Fr. apportionner, from O.Fr. aporcioner, from a- "to" + portioner "to divide into portions," from portion "share, portion" (see portion). Apportionment is attested from 1620s.

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