apportioning

verb

present participle of apportion
1
as in allotting
to give as a share or portion apportioned the profits according to years of service with the company

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2
as in distributing
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals apportioned the grant money to the winners of the competition

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Recent Examples of apportioning The fungibility of the hands is a reprieve from the book’s scenes of violence and its fallout, from the endless assigning of blame and the apportioning out of mercy or destruction. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 But the Supreme Court put off ruling on a challenge to Trump's 2020 effort to to exclude undocumented immigrants from the numbers used for apportioning congressional seats. — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apportioning
  1. allotting
  2. distributing
  3. allocating
  4. dispensing
  5. assigning
  6. dividing
  7. providing
  8. administering
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  • Inevitably, team evil has cooler powers, like Sindel’s scream and Kung Lao’s hat of doom, but in addition to allotting an inordinate amount of its combat time to Shao Kahn, who’s just a hulking guy with a hammer, the movie’s big visual idea is characters blasting one another with beams.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • The framework proposes allotting $20 million of it to the Rays.
    — Nicolas Villamil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
Definition of allotting
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  • Deablo wears the green dot for the Falcons’ defense, giving him the responsibility of distributing play calls to his teammates.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The rollout included distributing the new shoe across 5,000 doors, twice the average for a Nike basketball signature shoe, Hill explained.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of distributing
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  • Most companies already have established processes for deciding where to expand, allocating capital and evaluating new markets, and reworking those processes requires more than adding another tool.
    — Jeremy Barnett, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Higher yields tend to pose competition for stocks has investors may prefer allocating to relatively risk-free and higher yielding bonds rather than risk-on stocks.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of allocating
Verb
  • Yet while one state agency was running out of patience with the home, Miami-Dade mental health treatment centers, dispensing Medicaid and other state dollars, had clients living there, and several other homes like it.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
  • This spring, a 5th Circuit order briefly reinstated in-person dispensing nationwide, but thankfully the Supreme Court stepped in to pause that order and preserve access while the case continues.
    — Julie F. Kay, STAT, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of dispensing
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  • Think about what the AI will need to disclose before assigning the call.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Matter is never worthless, but assigning it a price does not necessarily make its environmental and social costs disappear.
    — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of assigning
Verb
  • This multiversal collapse not only erodes the walls dividing fictions but also reconfigures the interface between fiction and reality.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • After being securely held for nearly four decades by one of the most preeminent politicians in California history, the House seat to represent bright blue San Francisco in Congress is up for grabs in November — and dividing the Democratic Party.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of dividing
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  • There is also a kids club providing childcare and kid-friendly activities provided by a team with over eight years experience working with children.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • His new project, Flop, aims to create a spot market for computing power, where participants are rewarded with Flop tokens for providing GPUs and performing AI inference.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of providing
Verb
  • These executions generally feature drugs of questionable quality, nonmedical personnel administering the drugs and patients with notoriously weak veins, Lain said.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The secretary of state is in charge of administering statewide elections, providing information about ballot measures and candidates to voters and overseeing campaign financing.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of administering

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“Apportioning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apportioning. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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