Verb (used with object) : to apportion expenses among the three men.    From Dictionary.com. 

The Constitution required that any capitation tax be apportioned, meaning that every person in a given state had to pay the same amount.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the ObamaCare Tax Penalty Is Unconstitutional] Reference

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

Cavalry is apportioned to an army in two capacities: (1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference

How should the nutrients be apportioned among the meals?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference

He has apportioned out themes for the major characterizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar-Nominated Scores: 'Babel,' 'The Queen'] Reference

Entries were apportioned based on the average of two qualifications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodology] Reference

And what if the senators were apportioned according to jobs figures?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repeal the 17th amendment?] Reference

One was apportioned to her, and the woman stood by while she undressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

Blame for the sick economy can be apportioned in many quarters and both parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Bull Campaign] Reference

Craddock was bearing down on Morgan, the fight being apportioned now man to man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

Each guest is apportioned a little suite, consisting of bedroom, sitting-room, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

Where was that apportioned two dollars which he was to earn by the end of the week?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

Girls were each apportioned a small piece of dough, mixed with any but spring water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference

As to the timber-trees, which are always scarce, they have to be carefully apportioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

After some discussion my offer was taken, and the cargo apportioned among the residents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

Work so apportioned as to leave room for growth, beyond the mere repair of tissue, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

The huts, which were really quite substantial wigwams, were apportioned among the prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference

Representatives and direct taxes were to be apportioned to the number of free persons; no new.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

The full pods were boiled, and apportioned to be shelled and the peas eaten with butter and salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference

Every boat is apportioned for the riparian owners and their friends to the very end of the season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

The beans and flour and canned meat had been duly apportioned, and placed in their respective sacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

To this end the time should be apportioned with careful reference to each department of library service.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

Ravenously hungry as we were, these supplies were divided and apportioned with the most scrupulous exactness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

They apportioned the rusty objects and the broken chair and wheels between them and sauntered slowly homewards.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

All of the inquiries are trying to pin down how the accident happened and how culpability should be apportioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP: No Single Factor Caused Gulf Spill] Reference

But in every case the ground was to be set out as apportioned by the mayor and sheriffs with the assistance of "Mr.".    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

His father left an estate consisting only of some slaves, which were equally apportioned between himself and sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis] Reference

With regard to Southern Queensland, the seasons may be provisionally apportioned as follows: Spring -- August, September.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

He wanted inductees allocated to the services according to their physical and mental abilities and Negroes apportioned among them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

For entries without a specified campus, we apportioned the remaining undetermined entries using a new apportionment method this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodology] Reference

The Flying-fish which had been taken, were divided and apportioned with scrupulous exactness, and devoured with very little ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

DP 1; seats awarded - SPPF 6, DP 4, UO 1 note: the 11 awarded seats are apportioned according to the share of each party in the total vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

The colonel was in bed when I got back, but I held a candle while he read through the orders, and got out his ivory ruler, and apportioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

Of course, there were the ministers of the gospel and their families — in the same generous overdose — apportioned to most small towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working With the Working Woman] Reference

The cake is apportioned to the condition of the different animals, and some of the leanest cattle get the double of others which are riper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference