APPORTIONED Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

apportioned

verb

past tense of apportion

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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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

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The Pirates, Meyer said, do not spend all the money they are allotted to sign draft picks.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
The research and design process for the makeup was allotted 18 months prior to principal photography, so Dunckley had the opportunity to get the execution down to a science.

— Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 23 Oct. 2026

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Investigators said at the time that more than 25 songs had been played or distributed online without permission from Eminem or the group that owns his music, Capitol Labels Group.

— Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
The numbers were distributed evenly across the incoming beam, and whether the photon passed the polarizer depended on its number and the polarizer’s angle.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

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How Israel's elections work Israelis vote for parties rather than directly electing a prime minister, with the Knesset’s 120 seats allocated through proportional representation.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
In the previous year, DePaul had allocated $426,000 for the museum, and de Lara managed to fundraise an additional $319,000.

— News Desk, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026

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In previous election cycles, state officials in the states where monitors were assigned were notified at the same time as the counties.

— Miles Parks, NPR, 22 Oct. 2026
Advertisement The docuseries marks the first time the Loofe clan is sharing their side of the story, along with Nebraska investigators and an FBI agent assigned to the case.

— Samantha Bergeson, Time, 22 Oct. 2026

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The race is widely seen as a referendum on Netanyahu's nearly unbroken 17-year rule, which had left Israelis bitterly divided on a host of issues even before the deadliest attack in the country's history.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
The race was widely seen as a referendum on Netanyahu’s nearly unbroken 17-year rule, which had left Israelis bitterly divided on a host of issues even before the deadliest attack in the country’s history.

— Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026

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The National Association of State Boards of Education also reports that some districts give students seven assessments per grade, with most tests administered one to three times a year.

— Liza Bondurant, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
The group’s advocacy for narcotics was both far-out—the idea that Class As might ever be administered clinically or therapeutically by the NHS was a fringe pursuit—and shockingly comprehensive.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026

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