apportion
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law verb
To divide loss or liability proportionately between parties.
The court apportioned the damages to reflect the buyer's own failure to mitigate.
Business verb
To divide and allocate something proportionally among recipients.
Overheads are apportioned to each division according to floor space.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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