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US
/əˈpɔɹʃən/
]
[ UK /ɐpˈɔːʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɐpˈɔːʃən/ ]
VERB
- give out as one's portion or share
-
distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose
I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip
I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis
How To Use apportion In A Sentence
- The investigation into the air crash would inevitably apportion blame to certain members of the crew.
- At present the apportionment is as follows: Church extension, 10 per cent; annual conferences, 36 per cent; and the financial Religious Bodies: 1906
- The language is necessarily tortured in describing the 18,225 electronic scratch-ticket machines that would be apportioned according to a formula in the initiative.
- As to the money raised by local subscription, no definite apportionment has yet been made but we understand that Woodhouse will receive a good round sum.
- Tim Holden won his last race with 51 percent in a newly reapportioned district against another incumbent.
- The power to apportion responsibility under the Law Reform Act 1945 afforded a far more appropriate tool for doing justice than the blunt instrument of turpitude.
- Gene trees in which the observed substitutions were apportioned to the various branches of the tree by phylogenetic algorithms provided the inferred substitutions on each green or nongreen branch.
- He had nothing to tell them regarding the preciousness of water and the apportionment of supplies... given they were in their sane minds. HAMMERFALL
- In the same way, we cannot say which of the heatwaves were man-made and which were natural, but we can apportion blame for the change in risk.
- My Lord, can I then much more briefly deal with two other matters: apportionment of costs and leave to appeal?