apportions

verb

present tense third-person singular of apportion
1
as in allots
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 distributes
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals apportioned the grant money to the winners of the competition

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Recent Examples of apportions Each year, Congress apportions funds to individual institutes within NIH based on what lawmakers deem most critical to the public. — Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 27 June 2026 By Danielle Allen Fifty dollars for STEM, five cents for citizenship—that’s how America apportions its education dollars. — Bhumika Tharoor, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025 The fires underscore this failure, but no policy that apportions the state’s supply among those claimants could have saved the communities destroyed by fire over the last week. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025 Nebraska is heavily Republican overall but is one of two states — the other is Maine — that apportions its Electoral College votes by congressional district. — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apportions
  1. allots
  2. distributes
  3. assigns
  4. dispenses
  5. allocates
  6. divides
  7. provides
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  • When a team allots minutes to so many young players simultaneously, lapses in concentration and on-court mistakes are bound to happen.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Definition of allots
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  • The Confederation of African Football, which is more dependent on the money FIFA distributes than other continental confederations, has backed Infantino.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The Payout Date, also known as the payment date, is the day the company distributes the dividend to eligible shareholders.
    — Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of distributes
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  • There’s a common perception among fans that FIFA assigns the matches each referee will officiate from the very beginning of the tournament.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
  • India’s Aadhaar system, created in 2009, uses iris scans and fingerprints, and assigns a unique twelve-digit number to all residents.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of assigns
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  • That unit dispenses prescriptions in CVS' more than 9,000 retail pharmacies and provides other services, such as vaccinations and diagnostic testing.
    — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The foundation dispenses $350,000 to $500,000 a year, according to the family's attorney, Stephanie Johnson O’Day.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 28 June 2026
Definition of dispenses
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  • The program allocates $135 million to provide incentives, with participating automakers matching the funds.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The current model allocates most of the clinical visits to administrative work and only a fraction to the patient.
    — Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of allocates
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  • Backups Lan Larison, Jam Miller and Myles Montgomery worked apart from Maye and the top three backs during a walkthrough 11-on-11 period that, in a regular-season setting, usually divides the starters from the scout-teamers.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 10 Aug. 2026
  • But today’s Court often divides along stark ideological lines, and the liberals often sound truly distraught in their dissents.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of divides
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  • Pips-out is more of a defensive rubber that provides more speed and power but has less spin on hits.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • This next generation of talent provides an in for luxury brands who are keen to generate loyalty and sales, not just celebrity fervor, through their Korean brand ambassadors.
    — Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026
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