Definition of apportion in English:

apportion

verb əˈpɔːʃ(ə)nəˈpɔrʃ(ə)n

[with object]

1Divide up and share out.
voting power will be apportioned according to contribution
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- Even as a revised commission lineup is being readied for early November, the question of how power is apportioned among the Commission, the Parliament, and national governments is more muddied than ever.
- The success was divided and I am asked to apportion the 14 hours that are shown on the Bill of Costs.
- The two states that apportion electoral votes by district still gave all their votes to one of the two major-party candidates last year.
- 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.
- 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.
- Running your own shares portfolio is all about learning how to apportion your money in order to generate the best possible returns.
- This 5% goes into the development company and is apportioned as dividend according to the shareholding.
- The deal merely apportioned the cabinet posts among power contenders without dissolving the factional militias.
- Census numbers are also used to draw political districts and apportion seats in Congress.
- This is enhanced with an EBD (Electronic Brake Distribution) system that apportions the majority braking effort to either end of the car.
- That theory turned on the fact of a broad consensus that modern societies must allocate wealth and opportunity through economic markets and must apportion political power through the markets of multiparty elections.
- In these cases, the companies' revenues were divided in half and apportioned between the two countries.
- It is to be noted first that this regulation provides a discretionary power to apportion the benefit.
- Furthermore, the belief that multiple regression analyses will accurately apportion the contributions of smoking, increasing age, and other colinear factors has been shown to be unjustified.
- The outcome will not only determine how governmental power will be apportioned over the next four years, but will also decide the makeup of the special committee that is supposed to rewrite the flawed Constitution.
- The electoral college apportions political power in the country in such a way that results in the individual states are important, which is why we saw state-by-state maps on our TV screens and in our newspapers and websites.
- Through Lebanon's unwritten National Pact of 1943, political power was apportioned between Christians and Muslims.
- Should the road surface adhesion change when taking a corner, the efficient four-wheel drive system cuts in imperceptibly to apportion power according to grip and ensure that all remains under control.
- 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.
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. 1.1 Assign.
  they did not apportion blame or liability to any one individual
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, if blame is to be apportioned to these groups and their glamorising of violence, surely much of it must lie at the door of the record companies who issue their rantings, the construction of which is enough to make a stoker blanch.
  Most of that, we think, is apportioned to assaults, particularly linked to alcohol.
  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.
  Storage overheads were apportioned to materials, in proportion to their value, then the workshop overheads were applied to the work accounts according to an hourly rate.
  The interim constitution had specified that at least 25 percent of seats be apportioned to women.
  Even the finding that had been available to the town had been apportioned to arrive over a two year period.
  It is really all a case of getting our priorities right and this will never happen if we apportion the lion's share to the military.
  As the amount of drinking increased, more and more money would necessarily be apportioned to it and this would also necessarily leave less and less money available for other, more-positive and potentially life-enriching purposes.
  If, however, the 60 deputies had been apportioned to the various constituencies on the basis of ordinary mathematical equality, the results would have been as follows.
  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.
  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.
  But he apportioned a share of the blame to the bank itself.
  No blame could be apportioned to the referee who was simply enforcing the rules but if the sin-bin rule had been available to the man in charge on that day all parties involved would have felt that justice prevailed.
  Half of the seats are apportioned to winning parties and half to candidates elected from so-called single-mandate constituencies.
  Both defeats could have been apportioned to immaturity.
  ‘Clean money’ reform is working in several states where a set amount of money is apportioned to candidates.
  Rightly or wrongly, medical conditions concerning self-image are more commonly associated with girls, and much of the blame is apportioned to glossy magazines showing images of super-thin supermodels.
  After all, if there was incompetance, then it deserves to be equally apportioned to all governments and intelligence agencies.
  They complain that the best walkie-talkies are apportioned to the staff who come more in contact with the officers than those always on the move.
  The blame for some of this must be apportioned to the frequency of the bus service but no doubt had this road been in the vicinity of the racecourse it would have been repaired or even resurfaced by now.
  Synonyms
  earmark, appropriate, designate, set aside, set apart, keep, reserve

Derivatives

apportionable

adjectiveəˈpɔːʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l

Unlike the situation in the United States and Canada, there is no higher-level government in the EU that provides a definition of income from which to start in defining apportionable income; each Member State goes its own way.
Example sentencesExamples
- The need for Member States to reach agreement on the definition of apportionable income, the rules for consolidation of groups, and the apportionment formula raises knotty problems, as does the question of tax administration.
- He was no longer a half soul; a freak; a wanderer; a joker with no apportionable purpose.
- 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.
- 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

abortion, caution, contortion, distortion, extortion, portion, proportion, retortion, torsion

Definition of apportion in US English:

apportion

verbəˈpɔrʃ(ə)nəˈpôrSH(ə)n

[with object]

1Divide and allocate.
voting power will be apportioned according to contribution
Example sentencesExamples
- This 5% goes into the development company and is apportioned as dividend according to the shareholding.
- Census numbers are also used to draw political districts and apportion seats in Congress.
- The outcome will not only determine how governmental power will be apportioned over the next four years, but will also decide the makeup of the special committee that is supposed to rewrite the flawed Constitution.
- The two states that apportion electoral votes by district still gave all their votes to one of the two major-party candidates last year.
- This is enhanced with an EBD (Electronic Brake Distribution) system that apportions the majority braking effort to either end of the car.
- It is to be noted first that this regulation provides a discretionary power to apportion the benefit.
- 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.
- The success was divided and I am asked to apportion the 14 hours that are shown on the Bill of Costs.
- That theory turned on the fact of a broad consensus that modern societies must allocate wealth and opportunity through economic markets and must apportion political power through the markets of multiparty elections.
- Running your own shares portfolio is all about learning how to apportion your money in order to generate the best possible returns.
- 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.
- The electoral college apportions political power in the country in such a way that results in the individual states are important, which is why we saw state-by-state maps on our TV screens and in our newspapers and websites.
- Should the road surface adhesion change when taking a corner, the efficient four-wheel drive system cuts in imperceptibly to apportion power according to grip and ensure that all remains under control.
- In these cases, the companies' revenues were divided in half and apportioned between the two countries.
- Through Lebanon's unwritten National Pact of 1943, political power was apportioned between Christians and Muslims.
- Even as a revised commission lineup is being readied for early November, the question of how power is apportioned among the Commission, the Parliament, and national governments is more muddied than ever.
- The deal merely apportioned the cabinet posts among power contenders without dissolving the factional militias.
- 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.
- 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.
- Furthermore, the belief that multiple regression analyses will accurately apportion the contributions of smoking, increasing age, and other colinear factors has been shown to be unjustified.
Synonyms
share out, divide out, allocate, distribute, allot, assign, dispense
1. 1.1 Assign.
  they did not apportion blame or liability to any one individual
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the amount of drinking increased, more and more money would necessarily be apportioned to it and this would also necessarily leave less and less money available for other, more-positive and potentially life-enriching purposes.
  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.
  Half of the seats are apportioned to winning parties and half to candidates elected from so-called single-mandate constituencies.
  The interim constitution had specified that at least 25 percent of seats be apportioned to women.
  No blame could be apportioned to the referee who was simply enforcing the rules but if the sin-bin rule had been available to the man in charge on that day all parties involved would have felt that justice prevailed.
  Rightly or wrongly, medical conditions concerning self-image are more commonly associated with girls, and much of the blame is apportioned to glossy magazines showing images of super-thin supermodels.
  If, however, the 60 deputies had been apportioned to the various constituencies on the basis of ordinary mathematical equality, the results would have been as follows.
  Storage overheads were apportioned to materials, in proportion to their value, then the workshop overheads were applied to the work accounts according to an hourly rate.
  Both defeats could have been apportioned to immaturity.
  But he apportioned a share of the blame to the bank itself.
  The blame for some of this must be apportioned to the frequency of the bus service but no doubt had this road been in the vicinity of the racecourse it would have been repaired or even resurfaced by now.
  Even the finding that had been available to the town had been apportioned to arrive over a two year period.
  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.
  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.
  It is really all a case of getting our priorities right and this will never happen if we apportion the lion's share to the military.
  ‘Clean money’ reform is working in several states where a set amount of money is apportioned to candidates.
  However, if blame is to be apportioned to these groups and their glamorising of violence, surely much of it must lie at the door of the record companies who issue their rantings, the construction of which is enough to make a stoker blanch.
  After all, if there was incompetance, then it deserves to be equally apportioned to all governments and intelligence agencies.
  They complain that the best walkie-talkies are apportioned to the staff who come more in contact with the officers than those always on the move.
  Most of that, we think, is apportioned to assaults, particularly linked to alcohol.
  Synonyms
  earmark, appropriate, designate, set aside, set apart, keep, reserve

Origin

Late 16th century: from Old French apportionner or medieval Latin apportionare, from ad- ‘to’ + portionare ‘divide into portions’.

单词	apportion
释义	Definition of apportion in English: apportion verb əˈpɔːʃ(ə)nəˈpɔrʃ(ə)n [with object] 1Divide up and share out. voting power will be apportioned according to contribution Example sentencesExamples 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. Even as a revised commission lineup is being readied for early November, the question of how power is apportioned among the Commission, the Parliament, and national governments is more muddied than ever. The success was divided and I am asked to apportion the 14 hours that are shown on the Bill of Costs. The two states that apportion electoral votes by district still gave all their votes to one of the two major-party candidates last year. 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. 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. Running your own shares portfolio is all about learning how to apportion your money in order to generate the best possible returns. This 5% goes into the development company and is apportioned as dividend according to the shareholding. The deal merely apportioned the cabinet posts among power contenders without dissolving the factional militias. Census numbers are also used to draw political districts and apportion seats in Congress. This is enhanced with an EBD (Electronic Brake Distribution) system that apportions the majority braking effort to either end of the car. That theory turned on the fact of a broad consensus that modern societies must allocate wealth and opportunity through economic markets and must apportion political power through the markets of multiparty elections. In these cases, the companies' revenues were divided in half and apportioned between the two countries. It is to be noted first that this regulation provides a discretionary power to apportion the benefit. Furthermore, the belief that multiple regression analyses will accurately apportion the contributions of smoking, increasing age, and other colinear factors has been shown to be unjustified. The outcome will not only determine how governmental power will be apportioned over the next four years, but will also decide the makeup of the special committee that is supposed to rewrite the flawed Constitution. The electoral college apportions political power in the country in such a way that results in the individual states are important, which is why we saw state-by-state maps on our TV screens and in our newspapers and websites. Through Lebanon's unwritten National Pact of 1943, political power was apportioned between Christians and Muslims. Should the road surface adhesion change when taking a corner, the efficient four-wheel drive system cuts in imperceptibly to apportion power according to grip and ensure that all remains under control. 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. 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 1.1 Assign. they did not apportion blame or liability to any one individual Example sentencesExamples However, if blame is to be apportioned to these groups and their glamorising of violence, surely much of it must lie at the door of the record companies who issue their rantings, the construction of which is enough to make a stoker blanch. Most of that, we think, is apportioned to assaults, particularly linked to alcohol. 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. Storage overheads were apportioned to materials, in proportion to their value, then the workshop overheads were applied to the work accounts according to an hourly rate. The interim constitution had specified that at least 25 percent of seats be apportioned to women. Even the finding that had been available to the town had been apportioned to arrive over a two year period. It is really all a case of getting our priorities right and this will never happen if we apportion the lion's share to the military. As the amount of drinking increased, more and more money would necessarily be apportioned to it and this would also necessarily leave less and less money available for other, more-positive and potentially life-enriching purposes. If, however, the 60 deputies had been apportioned to the various constituencies on the basis of ordinary mathematical equality, the results would have been as follows. 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. 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. But he apportioned a share of the blame to the bank itself. No blame could be apportioned to the referee who was simply enforcing the rules but if the sin-bin rule had been available to the man in charge on that day all parties involved would have felt that justice prevailed. Half of the seats are apportioned to winning parties and half to candidates elected from so-called single-mandate constituencies. Both defeats could have been apportioned to immaturity. ‘Clean money’ reform is working in several states where a set amount of money is apportioned to candidates. Rightly or wrongly, medical conditions concerning self-image are more commonly associated with girls, and much of the blame is apportioned to glossy magazines showing images of super-thin supermodels. After all, if there was incompetance, then it deserves to be equally apportioned to all governments and intelligence agencies. They complain that the best walkie-talkies are apportioned to the staff who come more in contact with the officers than those always on the move. The blame for some of this must be apportioned to the frequency of the bus service but no doubt had this road been in the vicinity of the racecourse it would have been repaired or even resurfaced by now. Synonyms earmark, appropriate, designate, set aside, set apart, keep, reserve Derivatives apportionable adjectiveəˈpɔːʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l Unlike the situation in the United States and Canada, there is no higher-level government in the EU that provides a definition of income from which to start in defining apportionable income; each Member State goes its own way. Example sentencesExamples The need for Member States to reach agreement on the definition of apportionable income, the rules for consolidation of groups, and the apportionment formula raises knotty problems, as does the question of tax administration. He was no longer a half soul; a freak; a wanderer; a joker with no apportionable purpose. 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. 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 abortion, caution, contortion, distortion, extortion, portion, proportion, retortion, torsion Definition of apportion in US English: apportion verbəˈpɔrʃ(ə)nəˈpôrSH(ə)n [with object] 1Divide and allocate. voting power will be apportioned according to contribution Example sentencesExamples This 5% goes into the development company and is apportioned as dividend according to the shareholding. Census numbers are also used to draw political districts and apportion seats in Congress. The outcome will not only determine how governmental power will be apportioned over the next four years, but will also decide the makeup of the special committee that is supposed to rewrite the flawed Constitution. The two states that apportion electoral votes by district still gave all their votes to one of the two major-party candidates last year. This is enhanced with an EBD (Electronic Brake Distribution) system that apportions the majority braking effort to either end of the car. It is to be noted first that this regulation provides a discretionary power to apportion the benefit. 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. The success was divided and I am asked to apportion the 14 hours that are shown on the Bill of Costs. That theory turned on the fact of a broad consensus that modern societies must allocate wealth and opportunity through economic markets and must apportion political power through the markets of multiparty elections. Running your own shares portfolio is all about learning how to apportion your money in order to generate the best possible returns. 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. The electoral college apportions political power in the country in such a way that results in the individual states are important, which is why we saw state-by-state maps on our TV screens and in our newspapers and websites. Should the road surface adhesion change when taking a corner, the efficient four-wheel drive system cuts in imperceptibly to apportion power according to grip and ensure that all remains under control. In these cases, the companies' revenues were divided in half and apportioned between the two countries. Through Lebanon's unwritten National Pact of 1943, political power was apportioned between Christians and Muslims. Even as a revised commission lineup is being readied for early November, the question of how power is apportioned among the Commission, the Parliament, and national governments is more muddied than ever. The deal merely apportioned the cabinet posts among power contenders without dissolving the factional militias. 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. 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. Furthermore, the belief that multiple regression analyses will accurately apportion the contributions of smoking, increasing age, and other colinear factors has been shown to be unjustified. Synonyms share out, divide out, allocate, distribute, allot, assign, dispense 1.1 Assign. they did not apportion blame or liability to any one individual Example sentencesExamples As the amount of drinking increased, more and more money would necessarily be apportioned to it and this would also necessarily leave less and less money available for other, more-positive and potentially life-enriching purposes. 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. Half of the seats are apportioned to winning parties and half to candidates elected from so-called single-mandate constituencies. The interim constitution had specified that at least 25 percent of seats be apportioned to women. No blame could be apportioned to the referee who was simply enforcing the rules but if the sin-bin rule had been available to the man in charge on that day all parties involved would have felt that justice prevailed. Rightly or wrongly, medical conditions concerning self-image are more commonly associated with girls, and much of the blame is apportioned to glossy magazines showing images of super-thin supermodels. If, however, the 60 deputies had been apportioned to the various constituencies on the basis of ordinary mathematical equality, the results would have been as follows. Storage overheads were apportioned to materials, in proportion to their value, then the workshop overheads were applied to the work accounts according to an hourly rate. Both defeats could have been apportioned to immaturity. But he apportioned a share of the blame to the bank itself. The blame for some of this must be apportioned to the frequency of the bus service but no doubt had this road been in the vicinity of the racecourse it would have been repaired or even resurfaced by now. Even the finding that had been available to the town had been apportioned to arrive over a two year period. 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. 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. It is really all a case of getting our priorities right and this will never happen if we apportion the lion's share to the military. ‘Clean money’ reform is working in several states where a set amount of money is apportioned to candidates. However, if blame is to be apportioned to these groups and their glamorising of violence, surely much of it must lie at the door of the record companies who issue their rantings, the construction of which is enough to make a stoker blanch. After all, if there was incompetance, then it deserves to be equally apportioned to all governments and intelligence agencies. They complain that the best walkie-talkies are apportioned to the staff who come more in contact with the officers than those always on the move. Most of that, we think, is apportioned to assaults, particularly linked to alcohol. Synonyms earmark, appropriate, designate, set aside, set apart, keep, reserve Origin Late 16th century: from Old French apportionner or medieval Latin apportionare, from ad- ‘to’ + portionare ‘divide into portions’.
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