apportion
/əˈpɔːʃ(ə)n
/verb [with object]
1Divide up and share out: voting power will be apportioned according to contribution...
- The contract does not specify how the financing will be shared but merely apportions the amount of work, which he fears may be disproportionately large for the Bulgarian enterprise if they get the less skilled procedures.
- Although only labor and capital participate in the process, the income therefrom must be apportioned into three shares: as wages to labor, as interest to capital, and as rent to the landowner.
- This 5% goes into the development company and is apportioned as dividend according to the shareholding.
Synonyms
share out, divide out, allocate, distribute, allot, assign, dispense;
give out, hand out, mete out, deal out, dole out;
ration, parcel out, measure out;
split, carve up, slice up
informal divvy up, dish out
1.1Assign: they did not apportion blame or liability to any one individual...
- The interim constitution had specified that at least 25 percent of seats be apportioned to women.
- In fact, their model is designed so that the more you surf within their ‘system,’ the more credits you accumulate, which in turn can be apportioned to any number of sites a blogger may be maintaining.
- No fault divorce, as was promoted, means that fault is not apportioned to the various parties in many aspects of the court decision, which in many situations would be very unbalanced with an innocent spouse suffering greatly.
Derivatives
apportionable
/ adjective ...- The Tribunal erred in finding that the variable elements of his pay were properly to be regarded as akin to an annual bonus apportionable throughout the year, and in failing to give reasons for that finding.
- He was no longer a half soul; a freak; a wanderer; a joker with no apportionable purpose.
- The adoption of DA as the third apportionable mission category in counterland doctrine will formally define the ability of airpower to engage and destroy an adversary's fielded military capabilities under defined circumstances.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Old French apportionner or medieval Latin apportionare, from ad- 'to' + portionare 'divide into portions'.
Rhymes
- jumping-off point
- jumping plant louse
- jumping spider
- jump instruction
- jump into bed with
- jump in with both feet
- jump jet
- jump jockey
- jump lead
- jump off
- jump on
- jump on the bandwagon
- jump (or be thrown) in at the deep end
- jump (or leap) to conclusions (or the conclusion)
- jump out
- jump out of one's skin
- jump ring
- jump rope
- jump seat
- jump shift
- jump ship
- jump shot
- jump someone's bones
- jump-start
- jumpstation