apportion
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
apportion/əˈpɔːʃn/
▶verb share out; assign.
– derivatives
apportionable adjective.
apportionable adjective.
– origin C16: from OFr. apportionner or med. L. apportionare, from ad- ‘to’ + portionare ‘divide into portions’.
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