apportion
verb (used with object)
to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution.
had apportioned
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past perfectof apportion.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Mr Johnson asked what the conspiracy between the four was, and she said they had "apportioned blame onto me".
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
The way Congress had apportioned funds almost equally among the Navy, Army and Air Force also seemed proof that no one was counting on an "atom blitz" to do it all.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was he who, as father of the family, had apportioned to each of the household his place and duties.
From 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God by Mikl?s J?sika
Francesco met his eyes steadily for a moment, then glanced at the other men, to the number of a half-score or so—all, in fact, whom the duties he had apportioned them did not hold elsewhere.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
With her air of proud gentleness, of gallant acceptance of what fate had apportioned her, she made him think of some plucky little citadel holding out against hunger.
From The Inner Shrine by Basil King
