Word Meanings - APPORTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPORTION)

• Allot
• Assign
• grant
• award
• give
• apportion
• deal
• dispense
• parcel
• distribute
• divide
• mete out
• portion out
• Allow
• Concede
• allot
• assign
• afford
• tolerate
• authorize
• remit
• recognize
• acknowledge
• avow
• confess
• admit
• permit
• suffer
• sanction
• yield
• Apply
• Adduce
• use
• employ
• dedicate
• devote
• exercise
• direct
• engage
• Appoint
• Fix
• determine
• instal
• order
• prescribe
• institute
• apply
• designate
• intrust
• invest
• ordain
• arrange
• Attribute
• allege
• refer
• specify
• consign
• commit
• point out
• allot to
• adduce
• advance
• appoint
• convey

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPORTION)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever
• Rest
• ease
• disuse
• respite
• relax
• recreate

Related words: (words related to APPORTION)

• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DISPENSE
  1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• CONSIGNER
  One who consigns. See Consignor.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.