apportionment

apportionment
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Proportional division
Nouns
1. (act of sharing) apportionment, allotment, consignment, allocation, assignment, sharing, rationing; appropriation; dispensation, distribution, division, partition, deal; trickle-down. See dispersion, part.
2. (portion shared) dividend, portion, contingent, share, interest, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, percentage, proportion, quota, lion's share, modicum, allowance. Informal, dollop, dibs, rake-off, piece of the pie.
Verbs — apportion, admeasure, divide, prorate, budget; distribute, consign, dispense; billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete; choose up sides; portion, allocate, disburse, ration; dish, hand, give, parcel, or dole out, farm out; deal, carve, administer; partition, assign, appropriate, appoint; share and share alike. Informal, go halves. Slang, divvy (up), deal or cut one in. See cooperation.
Adjectives — apportioning; respective; proportional, proportionate, commensurate, prorated; divisible.
Adverbs — respectively, pro rata, each to each, severally, individually; per stirpes, per capita, share and share alike. Informal, even Stephen. Slang, per.
Quotations — From each according to his abilities, and to each according to his needs (Karl Marx).
Antonyms, See acquisition.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. partition, allotment, division; see distribution 1 .
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The act of distributing or the condition of being distributed: admeasurement, allocation, assignment, dispensation, distribution, division. See COLLECT.

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