apportion
verb (used with object)
to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution.
apportionable
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a word derived from
apportion.
Example Sentences
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"I move, your Honor, that the wet goods apportionable to our absent friends be set aside for them."
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell
Treasure was within their reach, apportionable, when obtained, as prize-money.
From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Morgan Robertson
