Definition for Apportioning:

• the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; " the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state"

Synonyms for Apportioning:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • apportioning,
  • parcelling,
  • allotment,
  • apportionment,
  • allocation,
  • assignation,
  • parceling.
  •delegation (noun)
  • relegation,
  • entrustment,
  • committal,
  • submittal,
  • deputization,
  • entrustments,
  • transferences,
  • transference,
  • sending away,
  • committals,
  • giving over,
  • devolution,
  • relegations,
  • ordination,
  • commissionings.
  •distribution (noun)
  • de-livery,
  • circulatings,
  • de-liveries,
  • pro rating,
  • dis semination,
  • dis posing,
  • disposings,
  • partitionings,
  • dis-posing,
  • de livery,
  • pro-rating,
  • dis seminations,
  • dissipatings,
  • handing outs,
  • assignings,
  • pro-ratings,
  • pro ratings,
  • dis-semination,
  • dis-seminations,
  • de liveries,
  • proratings,
  • rationings,
  • allotings.

• v.

  •allotting (verb)
  • partitioning,
  • Distributing,
  • budgeting,
  • Portioning,
  • dividing,
  • segmenting,
  • assigning,
  • setting,
  • Earmarking,
  • dealing,
  • splitting,
  • giving,
  • Meting,
  • measuring,
  • Dispensing,
  • Allowing,
  • Allotting,
  • sharing,
  • slicing,
  • allocating,
  • cutting.
  •portioning (verb)
  • Dismembering,
  • compartmentalizing,
  • zoning,
  • Halving,
  • chunking,
  • Piecing,
  • Subdividing.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • delegation,
  • distribution,
  • mailing,
  • rationing,
  • Scatterings,
  • alloting,
  • spreadings.
  •Other relevant words:
  • accord,
  • address,
  • adjustment,
  • administer,
  • allocate,
  • allot,
  • allow,
  • allowance account,
  • application,
  • assign,
  • assignment,
  • award,
  • background,
  • balance,
  • bargain,
  • batch,
  • big,
  • bighearted,
  • bleak,
  • bounteous,
  • bountiful,
  • break,
  • break open,
  • breakdown,
  • breakup,
  • bundle,
  • burst,
  • business deal,
  • care,
  • carry on,
  • carve up,
  • carving,
  • cede,
  • circumstance,
  • circumstances,
  • class,
  • cleavage,
  • cleave,
  • clipping,
  • coating,
  • commission,
  • commitment,
  • communication,
  • communion,
  • component,
  • component part,
  • concede,
  • concession,
  • conduct,
  • consider,
  • consignment,
  • constituent,
  • contend,
  • context,
  • contribution,
  • cope,
  • cover,
  • cut,
  • cutting off,
  • deal out,
  • dealings,
  • deed over,
  • degeneration,
  • delegacy,
  • delegating,
  • deputation,
  • design,
  • destiny,
  • detachment,
  • devolvement,
  • dimension,
  • disconnected,
  • dish out,
  • dispense,
  • dispersion,
  • dissever,
  • distribute,
  • disunited,
  • divide,
  • divider,
  • divvy up,
  • dole out,
  • dower,
  • dowery,
  • dowry,
  • edged,
  • fade,
  • farewell,
  • fate,
  • film editing,
  • flock,
  • fortune,
  • fragmented,
  • freehanded,
  • gash,
  • get by,
  • gift,
  • give,
  • good deal,
  • grapple,
  • great deal,
  • hand,
  • hand-to-hand struggle,
  • handle,
  • handsome,
  • hatful,
  • header,
  • heap,
  • helping,
  • interval,
  • keen,
  • knifelike,
  • lancinate,
  • lancinating,
  • leave,
  • leave-taking,
  • leeway,
  • legal separation,
  • liberal,
  • look at,
  • lot,
  • lovingness,
  • luck,
  • make do,
  • make out,
  • manage,
  • manipulation,
  • margin,
  • masking,
  • mass,
  • measure,
  • measurement,
  • mensuration,
  • mess,
  • mete out,
  • mickle,
  • mint,
  • mission,
  • mount,
  • mountain,
  • muckle,
  • natural covering,
  • newspaper clipping,
  • openhanded,
  • order,
  • ordering,
  • ordinance,
  • package,
  • packet,
  • parcel of land,
  • parcel out,
  • part,
  • partake,
  • partake in,
  • partition off,
  • peck,
  • percentage,
  • perpetration,
  • piece,
  • piece of ground,
  • piece of land,
  • piercing,
  • pile,
  • place setting,
  • plenty,
  • ploughing,
  • ploughshare,
  • plow,
  • plowshare,
  • portion out,
  • posting,
  • president grant,
  • press clipping,
  • press cutting,
  • proportionality,
  • quite a little,
  • raft,
  • rassling,
  • ratio,
  • raw,
  • relegating,
  • rendezvous,
  • rending,
  • rent,
  • rip,
  • ripping,
  • rive,
  • scene,
  • scheming,
  • schism,
  • scope,
  • screening,
  • section,
  • sectionalisation,
  • sectionalization,
  • sell,
  • separate,
  • serving,
  • several,
  • severance,
  • share-out,
  • shell out,
  • sight,
  • slash,
  • slew,
  • slice up,
  • slip,
  • slit,
  • snag,
  • softwood,
  • spate,
  • split up,
  • stabbing,
  • stack,
  • stage setting,
  • statistical distribution,
  • stinging,
  • stock split,
  • symmetry,
  • take,
  • tear,
  • thinning,
  • tidy sum,
  • tolerance,
  • tract,
  • trade,
  • transaction,
  • transfer,
  • treat,
  • treatment,
  • unitisation,
  • unitization,
  • valuation account,
  • valuation reserve,
  • variance,
  • various,
  • wad,
  • wrestle,
  • wrestling,
  • yield,
  • zone,
  • naval division,
  • air division,
  • break up,
  • passel,
  • pot,
  • storage allocation.

Paraphrases for Apportioning:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    apportionment, apportion, allocation, repartition.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    sharing.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Distributing, proration, allocating, cost-sharing, assessment, split.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    reallocating, redistributing, Attributing, Segregating, Allotting, disseminating, Adjudicating, circulating, Granting, Disbursing, Dispensing, Separating, Prorating, locating, Conferring, Earmarking, dividing, Ascribing, Dispersing, Handing, departing, shifting, casting, laying, mapping, Assessing, Deploying, reselling, find, finding, fetching, filling, searching, bringing, putting, returning, Placing, leaving, streaming, exiting, seeking, sorting, giving, shutting, distribution, sharing, partitioning, Distributing, allocating.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    distribution, partitioning, breakdown.

Apportioning Sentence Examples:

• Soon, on a circle of fires drawn about Shorty, many pots of beans were boiling, and he, with a wrathful eye for what he called renigers, was frying and apportioning the thinnest of flapjacks.

• It would have turned a deaf ear to any debate on the nature of ethical obligation; but it was very keen indeed in apportioning blame to its neighbours who had sinned, and in deciding how far they had gone wrong.

Homophones for Apportioning:

• appurtenance, averting, Aberdeen Angus.

Hypernym for Apportioning:

• n.

  • act
    portion, reallotment, share, rationing, reapportionment, deal, subsidisation, subsidization, reallocation, grant, parcel.

Hyponym for Apportioning:

• n.

  • act
    distribution.