apportion
verb (used with object)
to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution.
apportions
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present tense formof apportion (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In Washington, a bipartisan commission apportions the congressional and legislative districts.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2023
Valladares calculates his savings might last six months, if he walks everywhere instead of spending three dollars on bus fare and buys frozen chicken drumsticks in bulk and apportions them out weekly.
From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2020
Where "Doctor Who" apportions crumbs on the way to finally making sense of an episode or an arc, "Class" drops them all at once on the table and tries to mash them into a loaf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2017
The Assembly apportions the UN’s expenses for each two-year period among its member states.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
Mqhayi then began to recite his well-known poem in which he apportions the stars in the heavens to the various nations of the world.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
