apportioned

verb

past tense of apportion
1
as in allotted
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 distributed
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals apportioned the grant money to the winners of the competition

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Recent Examples of apportioned The state was apportioned a bare 300,000 acre-feet a year in 1928, when Las Vegas was merely a dusty outpost miles from the Hoover Dam construction site. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The company generally denied the allegations and asserted that any damages should be apportioned among the parties and other potentially responsible parties. — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2026 Whether blame should be apportioned to Darden, private equity, or hedge funds, Red Lobster is still dealing with the repercussions of the deal. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026 Results from over 95% of the polling stations gave United Russia just under 58% of the vote for the 225 seats apportioned by parties, according to commission chair Ella Pamfilova. — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026 Parties with less than 5% of the vote are excluded from the legislature, with their votes apportioned to the larger parties. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026 Because the tax was not apportioned among the states as the Constitution required, those provisions were unconstitutional. — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 But state corporation taxes are apportioned based on where customers are located, not on where the company is based, as Isaaks explained in a report published on Tuesday. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026 In its verdict, the jury apportioned 88% of the fault to The University of Kansas Hospital Authority and only 12% to LivaNova, which put LivaNova’s share of the damages at $918,000. — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apportioned
  1. allotted
  2. distributed
  3. allocated
  4. dispensed
  5. assigned
  6. divided
  7. provided
  8. administered
Verb
  • Or the money is being allotted to different charitable organizations.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The daylong program would be divided into ten-minute segments, with one lighting cue and one sound cue allotted for each.
    — Nolan Kelly, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of allotted
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  • Informally distributed agent management responsibilities may work during experimentation, but thousands of agents interacting with applications, data, employees, customers and one another require a more deliberate operating model.
    — Lakshmanan Alagappan, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Like its predecessor, the monster follow-up is produced by Toho and is distributed in North America by GKids.
    — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of distributed
Verb
  • Graf allocated 105 days for the trial, beginning with jury selection on June 21, 2028.
    — Hannah Schoenbaum, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
  • In Europe, ambitious projects increasingly get financed through multi-territory co-productions, with the budget raised from several countries and production spending allocated accordingly.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of allocated
Verb
  • The automatic low temperature dish machine dispensed 0 ppm sanitizer.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • As journals rose in popularity, so did the book dispensed in bursts.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of dispensed
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  • Early this month, the Miami Herald hitched a ride aboard the Doyle, a 154-foot fast-response cutter, one of five such ships assigned to Coast Guard Sector San Juan.
    — Pedro Portal, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
  • But once in Korea, the friends would be assigned to different battalions and see each other only occasionally in rear areas, Foley says.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of assigned
Verb
  • Researchers said that antiquated formulas used to allocate energy costs along a power grid have historically divided those costs based on previous energy consumption, rather than new growth.
    — News Editor, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The 81-year-old English author won the £50,000 prize for a post-apocalyptic novel that has divided opinion.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of divided
Verb
  • Neither the police department nor the sheriff's office has provided details about the circumstances surrounding Nasca's arrest.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The then-44-year-old actor was sent to Reading Prison, a medium-security lockup, because authorities felt a minimum-security jail would have provided too easy access for reporters.
    — Mark Kennedy, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of provided
Verb
  • Morris, in response to that warning, argued CANARX was not misleading patients, but agreed for the company to stop importing drugs that need to be administered by a doctor.
    — Scott Zamost, CNBC, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Peptides are typically administered through injections or nasal sprays as most break down in the human digestive tract before reaching the bloodstream.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of administered

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“Apportioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apportioned. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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