APPORTIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apportioned mean? 

• APPORTIONED (adjective)
  The adjective APPORTIONED has 1 sense:

1. given out in portions

  Familiarity information: APPORTIONED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPORTIONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given out in portions

Synonyms:

apportioned; dealt out; doled out; meted out; parceled out

Similar:

distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)

 Context examples 

The gross volume of the apportioned exposure.

(Exposure Total Volume Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

The unit of measure for the gross volume of the apportioned exposure.

(Exposure Total Volume Administration Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Of this preparation a tolerably abundant plateful was apportioned to each pupil.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"It is true that meat be apportioned me and mine," he said.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The unfortunate delay can be apportioned between a blundering pilot and an intrusive sandbank.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Categories into which numbers are apportioned by the conventions of algebraic number theory.

(Number Type, NCI Thesaurus)

It is not too much to say that it will rank level with my own when the final credit of this business comes to be apportioned.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)