APPORTIONS Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

apportions

verb

present tense third-person singular of apportion

as in allots

to give as a share or portion apportioned the profits according to years of service with the company

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as in distributes

to give out (something) to appropriate individuals apportioned the grant money to the winners of the competition

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Recent Examples of apportions Each year, Congress apportions funds to individual institutes within NIH based on what lawmakers deem most critical to the public. — Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 27 June 2026 By Danielle Allen Fifty dollars for STEM, five cents for citizenship—that’s how America apportions its education dollars. — Bhumika Tharoor, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025 The fires underscore this failure, but no policy that apportions the state’s supply among those claimants could have saved the communities destroyed by fire over the last week. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025 Nebraska is heavily Republican overall but is one of two states — the other is Maine — that apportions its Electoral College votes by congressional district. — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024

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Hinson said the bill’s reductions to Medicaid spending for Iowa will be offset by the Rural Health Transformation Program, which allots $50 billion divided among all 50 states over the next five years.

— Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2026
When a team allots minutes to so many young players simultaneously, lapses in concentration and on-court mistakes are bound to happen.

— Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of allots

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Slowly, always slowly, and always in the company of a human server, the robot transports dishes to diners’ tables, where the human server distributes them.

— Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
The government has supported the initiative alongside the International Chess Federation, known as FIDE, Chess Kenya and The Gift of Chess, a nonprofit organization that distributes chess sets.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of distributes

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Notably, in the new documents, NASA assigns an explicit price to crew and cargo missions.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026
To help textile mills assess the impact of their headers, Fabscrap also developed a Smart Swatch Scorecard, which assigns header designs a grade, based on the number of components and the relative ease of disassembling them.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026

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But what happens when a chatbot dispenses advice on more sensitive topics typically reserved for experts, such as human health?

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
As for application, the product dispenses from a cooling metal tip—yet another benefit for depuffing—and just a few dots do the trick.

— Olivia Cigliano, InStyle, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of dispenses

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The Constitution allocates political power — specifically representation in the House of Representatives — and draws political districts in relation to decennial census counts of population size.

— Nancy Krieger, STAT, 9 Oct. 2026
The 10 Percent Profit Pledge initiative allocates a portion of Rituals’ net profits to supporting the well-being of people and the planet.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of allocates

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Education level divides Americans as well — just 47 percent of Americans without four-year degrees reported believing that science benefits most people, compared to 71 percent of college grads.

— Nicholas Florko, STAT, 10 Oct. 2026
Each cell type is characterized by particular gene-expression settings, which are inherited when a cell divides.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of divides

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The robot’s onboard visual feedback provides information about the objects and their positions during these interactions.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
The province contributes to Canada's equalization system, which provides federal funding to provinces with lower fiscal capacity.

— Sheena Rossiter, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026

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