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Definition: Apportioning |
ApportioningNoun1. The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ApportioningSynonyms: allocation (n), allotment (n), apportionment (n), parceling (n), parcelling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Apportionment | Adjective: apportioning; Verb: respective. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Apportioning |
| English words defined with "apportioning": allocation, allotment, apportionment ♦ deal, distribution ♦ parceling, parcelling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "apportioning": allocation of cost, apportioning jurisdiction ♦ cost allocation ♦ decennial census, dietary assistant, divided damages ♦ KITCHEN SUPERVISOR ♦ manager, kitchen. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "apportioning": Apportion. (references) |
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Civil Liberties | Poland | The national radio and television broadcasting council (KRRiTV) has broad powers in monitoring and regulating programming on radio and television, allocating broadcasting frequencies and licenses, and apportioning subscription revenues to public media. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Apportioning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 76.47% of the time. "Apportioning" is used about 17 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 (-ing form) | 76.47% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 23.53% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "apportioning": apportioning jurisdiction. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "apportioning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 摊分 (Apportion, Apportioned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | minnelijke rangregeling (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property), interne competentieverdeling (apportioning jurisdiction), buitengerechtelijke en minnelijke schikking tussen de hypothecaire schuldenaar en zijn bevoorrechte schuldeisers betreffend de rangregeling voor de verdeling van de opbrengst van de verkoop van het met hypotheek bezwaarde erf (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vapaaehtoinen velkajärjestely (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | répartition interne de compétence (apportioning jurisdiction), ordre conventionnel (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property), ordre consensuel (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property), ordre amiable (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property), décision de répartition des frais (decision apportioning the costs), clef de répartition forfaitaire des contingents tarifaires (fixed scale for apportioning Community tariff quotas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | zuteilend (allocating, allowancing, prorating), teilend (dividing, divisive, severing, sharing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταμερισμός των ευθυνών (apportioning of blame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | accordo bonario (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property), transazione amichevole (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property), suddivisione interna di competenza (apportioning jurisdiction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apportioningay ordem concertada mediante acordo entre as partes (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property). (various references) uppgörelse i godo mellan pantbrevsinnehavare och övriga förmånsberättigade borgenärer om fördelningen av köpeskillingen för pantsatt fast egendom (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property), uppgörelse i godo mellan gäldenären,pantbrevsinnehavarna och övriga förmånsberättigade borgenärer om fördelningen av köpeskillingen för pantsatt fast egendom (agreement out of court between mortgagees and chargees with regard to the apportioning of proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "apportioning": reapportioning. (additional references) | |
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"Apportioning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aprotinine, aprotonin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "apportioning" (pronounced upô"rshuning) |
| 5 | -sh u n i ng | auctioning, auditioning, captioning, cautioning, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, decommissioning, fashioning, freshening, functioning, malfunctioning, mentioning, motioning, partitioning, petitioning, positioning, rationing, reconditioning, repositioning, sanctioning, sectioning, stationing, vacationing. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fastening, fattening, flattening, frightening, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, margining, opening, orphaning, pardoning, poisoning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reexamining, reopening, ripening, ruining, saddening, seasoning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, weakening, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: appointing, portioning. | |
-3 letters: apportion, arointing, optioning, pronating, pronation, propining, proponing, rationing, ratooning. | |
-4 letters: agitprop, antiporn, aproning, ignitron, ignorant, opiating, painting, patining, pinpoint, pirating, poignant, pointing, printing, rigatoni, rogation, training, trapping, tripping, trooping, troponin. | |
-5 letters: airting, appoint, atoning, atropin, ignitor, ingrain, ironing, napping, nipping, opining, opinion, orating, oration, organon, paining, pairing, panting, parting, patroon, pignora. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: reapportioning. | |
+3 letters: proportionating. | |
+4 letters: antipornographic. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110000 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A p p o r t i o n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0070 0070 006F 0072 0074 0069 006F 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358282818486758180758073 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, chinês, kinesisk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, fransk, franska |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, grek |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugis |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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