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APPORTION.
Synonyms:
| allot, | appropriate, | deal, | distribute, | grant, |
| appoint, | assign, | dispense, | divide, | share. |
To allot or assign may be to make an arbitrary division; the same is true of distribute or divide. That which is apportioned is given by some fixed rule, which is meant to be uniform and fair; as, representatives are apportioned among the States according to population. To dispense is to give out freely; as, the sun dispenses light and heat. A thing is appropriated to or for a specific purpose (to which it thus becomes proper, in the original sense of being its own); money appropriated by Congress for one purpose can not be expended for any other. One may apportion what he only holds in trust; he shares what is his own. Compare [ALLOT].[55]
Antonyms:
| cling to, | consolidate, | gather together, | receive, |
| collect, | divide arbitrarily, | keep together, | retain. |
Prepositions:
Apportion to each a fair amount; apportion the property among the heirs, between two claimants; apportion according to numbers, etc.