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

It is not an act of revenge or even an exercise in apportioning blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [11/24/2005] Reference

She will have been long familiar with the idea of apportioning incomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference

As for the superdelgates, the notion of apportioning them based on various formulae just won't work.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Orgs: Obama Ahead Of Hillary In Pledged Delegates, Catching Her In Super-Delegates] Reference

You can’t use statistical models for the Census because of it’s role in apportioning political power and federal funding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Census Conspiracies Strike Back] Reference

Ms Palin, tipped as a possible 2012 presidential runner, hit out at "irresponsible statements" apportioning "blame for this terrible event".    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

States are to be rated in the apportioning of taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

The rule of apportioning Requis: on the States shall be the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

Give the rule of apportioning representatives and direct taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference

However, measuring and apportioning that -- No. 1, I disagree with Don.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008] Reference

They divided these into seven, apportioning one to each day of the week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

They need to know more details before they can start apportioning blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2002] Reference

The moderator did a superb job of apportioning time and controlling the crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Thielen: Bennet vs. Buck Debate] Reference

INOR governments have a legitimate right to participate in apportioning Slingshot's benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

The manner of apportioning the Congressional representation was fixed by an Act passed May 23.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

History suggests that OMB's diligence in apportioning AID appropriations has not been misplaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Npr Report On The Agency For International Development Pt] Reference

At the Yorkshire prison they had what appeared to me a more sensible method of apportioning the diet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference

To judge by the results of the Pew poll, voters are very generous to Obama in apportioning this credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trivial Pursuit] Reference

GRANT: Paula, you pointed out there that it is not going to be apportioning blame, or convicting anyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2009] Reference

GRAHAM: I think, when it comes to appropriating, apportioning blame, I think all of us are to blame up here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2008] Reference

And so they called it a beauty contest because it doesn't have any meaning in terms of apportioning delegates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2008] Reference

Part is needing time to do other things and being incapable right now of apportioning my time intelligently enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference

They had a grave duty to perform in apportioning the spoils among those who had been successful in the day's sport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

But he is not exactly clear, in explaining and apportioning the blame, whether he regards the arrogance as theirs or ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Raising Hall of Fame Standards] Reference

Such a step was taken in order to prevent the continual necessity of apportioning new lands to keep the natives satisfied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699] Reference

Hitherto only three-fifths of the negroes had been counted in apportioning representation in the House of Representatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

The apportioning of work to the two sexes seems to depend partly upon the weight of materials and partly upon previous training.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wage Earning and Education] Reference

Advocates for effective climate legislation are all angry and frustrated, and many have not been so targeted in apportioning blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Lashof: Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Lessons From Senate Climate Fail] Reference

For example, one idea of apportioning the Electoral College votes within a state -- I'm not saying I favor that, but it is one idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Dan Rather Opines on Politics and the Media - January 10, 2001] Reference

During the last forty years, the Freedmen have been counted as a part of the population, in apportioning the districts for the election of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

Home-economics experts will furnish us with figures which may be used as a basis for apportioning this amount among departments of household expenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference

I have no wish to reopen any wounds that will hinder the growth of a new, democratic Germany; or to tread useless ground by re-apportioning the blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [England Under Hitler]

Various people are trying to figure out a way to seat delegates from Michigan without the ones -- without apportioning them the way they voted on January 15th.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2008] Reference

The ACT's purpose is to establish and modify an allocation formula for apportioning the surface waters of the ACT Basin between the States of Alabama and Georgia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Named As The Federal Commissioner] Reference

Not counting illegal aliens in the census could potentially hit states like California and Texas the hardest when it comes to apportioning Congressional districts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2009] Reference

Representing the vote apportioning all of the 73 to Clinton because her name was on the ballot, and assuming as Senator Clinton does that all of the other delegates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2008] Reference

They that eat the remnants of feasts, after duly apportioning the food morning and evening among kinsmen, attain to ends that are exceedingly difficult of attainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

The ACF's purpose is to establish and modify an allocation formula for apportioning the surface waters of the ACF Basin among the States of Alabama, Florida and Georgia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Named As The Federal Commissioner] Reference