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apportion

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9 lettersPronunciation /əˈpɔːʃən/Part of speech verbSorted ainoopprtStarts with AEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose

Word origin

From Middle French apportionner, from Old French aporcioner, from Late Latin apportionare, from Latin ad + portio. By surface analysis, ap- + portion.

Used in a sentence

  • The controlling party had apportioned the voting districts such that their party would be favored in the next election.
  • The children were required to dump all of their Halloween candy on the table so that their parents could apportion it among them.
  • The Good Friday Agreement did not, and could not, apportion blame for the Troubles, in which, as in so many such conflicts, one side’s terrorist is the other’s hero.

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