Synonyms of the word apportion


APPORTIONALLOCATE - ALLOT - ASSIGN - DEAL - DISTRIBUTE - PORTION - SHARE

apportion

  • v. (transitive) To divide and distribute portions of a whole.
  • v. (transitive) Specifically, to do so in a fair and equitable manner; to allocate proportionally.

allocate

  • v. To set aside for a purpose.
  • v. To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition "to".
  • v. (computing) To set aside (as above), but specifically used to refer to the practice of making memory available…

allot

  • v. (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
  • v. (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

assign

  • v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
  • v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
  • v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
  • v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
  • v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
  • v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
  • n. An assignee.
  • n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

deal

  • n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
  • n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
  • v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  • v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  • v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  • v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
  • v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  • v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
  • n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
  • n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  • n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
  • n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  • n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
  • n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  • n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
  • n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  • n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  • n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
  • adj. Made of deal.

distribute

  • v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
  • v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
  • v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
  • v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
  • v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
  • v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
  • v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
  • v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

portion

  • n. An allocated amount.
  • n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  • n. One's fate; lot.
  • n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
  • n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
  • v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
  • v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

share

  • n. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
  • n. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit…
  • n. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
  • n. (Internet) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
  • n. The sharebone or pubis.
  • v. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
  • v. To have or use in common.
  • v. To divide and distribute.
  • v. To tell to another.
  • v. (obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
  • n. (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

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