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apportions

apportions is the third-person singular simple present indicative of apportion.

Meaning of apportion

Verb

apportion (third-person singular simple present apportions, present participle apportioning, simple past and past participle apportioned)

  1. (transitive) To divide and distribute portions of a whole.
    • The controlling party had apportioned the voting districts such that their party would be favored in the next election.
  2. (transitive) Specifically, to do so in a fair and equitable manner; to allocate proportionally.
    • The children were required to dump all of their Halloween candy on the table so that their parents could apportion it among them.

Questions about apportions

What is apportions the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Apportions is the third-person singular simple present indicative of apportion.

Words near apportions in the dictionary

  1. apportioneth
  2. apportioning
  3. apportionings
  4. apportionment
  5. apportionments
  6. apportions
  7. apports
  8. apposability
  9. apposable
  10. appose
  11. apposed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apportions (page history and authors); apportion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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