To mark off or apportion, usually with reference to a given unit of measurement.
The common people in Beibei are very poor. He can not bear to apportion them, and it will not work for a while.
The succession question, however, is only part of a broader struggle to apportion blame for the government's impending demise, a dispute that has already broken out within the Labour movement.
But then I'd have to make really difficult decisions like how to apportion our limited water supply.
This paper analyzes the fair apportion of human resource among parallel assignments, sets up the object function and the arithmetic model of limited resource.
In 2005 the local authorities in Zeguo, China, used the technique to apportion a 40m yuan ($5.9m) infrastructure budget.
The two sisters apportion the money to buy their parents gifts.
The problem is measuring it: How do you calculate the cost of climate change and then apportion it fairly among the world's businesses?
To apportion blame is not the constructive thing to do.
