MEANING
To divide and assign something in shares, often according to a stated rule or judgment.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- apportion costs
- apportion blame
On the page
They apportioned the costs according to the use each household made of the road.
The inquiry apportioned blame without pretending every failure had the same cause.
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Word forms
- Base
- apportion
- Past tense
- apportioned
- Past participle
- apportioned
- Present participle
- apportioning
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- apportion
- Present continuous
- am/is/are apportioning
- Present perfect
- have/has apportioned
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been apportioning
- Past
- apportioned
- Past continuous
- was/were apportioning
- Past perfect
- had apportioned
- Past perfect continuous
- had been apportioning
- Future
- will apportion
- Future continuous
- will be apportioning
- Future perfect
- will have apportioned
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been apportioning
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: apportion; apportions; apportioned; apportioned; apportioning Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: apportions.
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