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# apportion

«apportion» in Mova's school dictionary: **to divide it and share it out among people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (apportion, apportions, apportioned, apportioning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To apportion something is to divide it and share it out among people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apportion/#m1)

2) (formal) To apportion blame is to decide how much each person is responsible for something bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apportion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A formal, exam-style word. In maths problems it means share out, sometimes equally and sometimes in a ratio: «apportion 60 pounds between Ann and Ben in the ratio 2:1» gives 40 and 20. In news: «apportion blame».

### examples

- The prize money was apportioned among the winners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apportion/#x1)
- Apportion 36 sweets equally among 4 children: 9 each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apportion/#x2)
- The costs were apportioned according to use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apportion/#x3)
- It's hard to apportion blame for the accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apportion/#x4)
- The land was apportioned between the two brothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apportion/#x5)
- Apportion the time fairly between the tasks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apportion/#x6)

### note

Double «p». Formal; simpler: share out, divide. In maths, with a ratio a:b, first find a + b parts, then each part = total ÷ (a + b).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «apportion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apportion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.