have apportioned
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present perfectof apportion.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
apportionverb (used with object)to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution.
Example Sentences
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Such a proceeding, she says, could have "apportioned blame in large, small and medium slices according to a single measure."
From Time Magazine Archive
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To return to angels, however, Origen states that the angels are not only of various orders of rank, but have apportioned to them specific offices and duties.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
The latter had defied the custom which would have apportioned her to a married man, and had come in to supper on the arm of young Zesslinger.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
I thought that it would be all right to do it quietly, and therefore I have apportioned as many as possible to the royal crown.
I have apportioned the largest trees among the higher officers.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker