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Definition: Apportioned |
ApportionedAdjective1. Given out in portions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "apportioned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: ApportionedSynonyms: dealt out (adj), doled out (adj), meted out (adj), parceled out (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Apportioned |
| English words defined with "apportioned": Apportionateness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "apportioned": apportioned tax ♦ indirect costs, indirectly attributable cost ♦ overheads ♦ Weight-for-age Race. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "apportioned": Apportion. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Street scene. Cascade, Idaho. Cascade is a microcosm of Idaho's past and present--all the industries of the state, including lumbering, mining, agriculture, stock raising and tourist trade are apportioned to this town and its valley. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 3: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | However, profits may be apportioned differently. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Taiwan | As of September, 23 medium-range and 10 short-range frequencies had been apportioned. (references) |
Economic History | Mali | Representation is apportioned according to the population of administrative districts. (references) |
Chile | Each coalition can run two candidates for the two Senate and two lower chamber seats apportioned to each chamber's electoral districts. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | The National Assembly seats are currently apportioned 8 to the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and one to the federal capital of Islamabad, with ten additional seats reserved for religious minorities. (references) |
Bolivia | A two-chamber Congress includes a 27-member senate (chosen by party slate; three per department) and a 130-member Chamber of Deputies (half-elected directly, and half from party slates; apportioned roughly by population). (references) | |
Political Rights | Fiji | The open seats, which were unprecedented, were established by an electoral commission and apportioned into districts of approximately equal population. (references) |
Trade | Costa Rica | Quotas for textile and garment exports to the United States are apportioned to producers by the Textile Quota Office, a producers' organization. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Apportioned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 81.97% of the time. "Apportioned" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 81.97% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 11.48% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.56% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "apportioned": apportioned dealt out doled out meted out parceled out ♦ apportioned tax ♦ be apportioned to. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "apportioned": formula-apportioned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
apportioned plate | 3 |
apportioned | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "apportioned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 摊分 (Apportion, Apportioning). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | impôt de répartition (apportioned tax). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | teilte zu (allocated, allowanced, prorated), geteilt (divided, shared, split). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | apportioneday tillmätt. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "apportioned": malapportioned, reapportioned. (additional references) | |
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"Apportioned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abortioned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "apportioned" (pronounced upô"rshund) |
| 8 | u p ô" r sh u n d | proportioned. |
| 4 | -sh u n d | aforementioned, auctioned, auditioned, captioned, cautioned, commissioned, conditioned, cushioned, decommissioned, fashioned, functioned, impassioned, malfunctioned, mentioned, motioned, optioned, partitioned, petitioned, positioned, propositioned, rationed, reconditioned, repositioned, requisitioned, sanctioned, sectioned, stationed, unsanctioned, vacationed. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aland, almond, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, cordoned, cottoned, dampened, darkened, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, margined, millisecond, moistened, moribund, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, poisoned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, questioned, quickened, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reexamined, reopened, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, seasoned, second, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, upland, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-o-o-p-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: propionate. | |
-2 letters: appointed, apportion, operation, portioned, predation, reappoint. | |
-3 letters: adoption, antipode, antipope, arointed, atropine, dipteran, dipteron, optioned, ordinate, parotoid, peponida, preadopt, pronated, propined, proponed, pteropod, rationed, ratooned, tandoori. | |
-4 letters: adopter, aneroid, antired, appoint, aproned, atropin, depaint, detrain, diatron, diopter, dioptre, diptera, donator, nappier, notepad, odonate, odorant, operand, operant, opiated, oppidan, oration, padrone, padroni, painted. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-o-o-p-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: reapportioned. | |
+3 letters: malapportioned, preponderation, proportionated. | |
+4 letters: preponderations. | |
+5 letters: disproportionate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 70 70 6F 72 74 69 6F 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. .--. --- .-. - .. --- -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110000 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A p p o r t i o n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0070 0070 006F 0072 0074 0069 006F 006E 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3582828184867581807170 |
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Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, kinesisk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, fransk, franska |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, tysk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, suédois, schwedisch, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, engelsk |
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