Apportion Synonyms and Antonyms
ə-pôr'shən
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Synonyms for Apportion
Allocate is defined as the act of setting aside something for a certain reason.
The document or provision in a document by which a grant is made.
A thing appropriated; esp., money set aside for a specific use
A budget is defined as a plan or estimate of the amount of money needed for cost of living or to be used for a specific purpose.
(Mil.) A major tactical or administrative unit that can act independently and is under one command
To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
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(Statistics) The relative arrangement of the elements of a statistical population based on some criterion, as frequency, time, or location
One's responsibility, duty, or obligation; share:
The part of a meal or quantity of food served to a person; serving; helping
Something provided:
Food issued or available to members of a group.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
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(Sports) The recorded time for an interval or segment of a race.
An amount available or sufficient for a given use; stock:
To take to oneself in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.
To assess is to tax or charge a fee.
To assign is defined as to empower or distribute a job or responsibility.
(Law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
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To set apart, as for a special use or purpose; assign:
To administer or give out, as in small portions.
To manage or regulate the business or affairs of; be in charge of:
To exempt or release, as from a duty or religious obligation.
To give or allow the use of temporarily on the condition that the same or its equivalent will be returned.
(Rare) To allot
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To separate into parts and distribute; apportion
To partition is to divide something into parts.
To divide proportionately, especially by day; to divide pro rata.
To furnish the means of support
To let do or happen; permit:
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To set aside or distribute as a share
To distribute something in portions or shares; to apportion or allot
To limit a variable or variables describing a physical system to discrete, distinct values. For example, the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as light at a given frequency must be an integer multiple of h&ngr;, where &ngr; is the frequency and h is a Planck's constant; electromagnetic energy is thus inherently quantized (in this case, photons are the quanta of energy). The distinct orbitals of electrons in an atom are also a case of quantized energy. Many apparently continuous phenomena turn out to be quantized at a very fine level or very small scale; quantum mechanics was developed in large part to explain many unexpected cases of quantization in the natural world.
The transfer of a duty, interest, or right from one party to another. See also subrogation.
Arrangement, positioning, or distribution:
Antonyms for Apportion
To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
To acquire or maintain a monopoly of.
To raise:
To keep from departing or getting away:
Words Related to Apportion
To classify or separate into categories.
To call for and obtain payment of:
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