Usually means: Allocate or distribute among parts.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word apportion:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. apportion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apportion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apportion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apportion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apportion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apportion, apportion: Wordnik
  7. apportion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apportion: Wiktionary
  9. apportion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apportion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apportion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. apportion: Dictionary.com
  13. apportion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. apportion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Apportion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. apportion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. apportion: Rhymezone
  18. apportion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. apportion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. apportion: Free Dictionary
  21. apportion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. apportion: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. apportion: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. APPORTION: Accounting Glossary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. apportion: Legal dictionary
  5. apportion: Financial dictionary
  6. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apportion: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. apportion: Idioms

(Note: See apportionable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To divide and distribute portions of a whole.
verb:  (transitive) Specifically, to do so in a fair and equitable manner; to allocate proportionally.

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