apportion

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

APPO'RTION, verb transitive [Latin ad and portio, portion. See Portion and Part.] To divide and assign in just proportion; to distribute among two or more, a just part or share to each; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.
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