“We need to proportion the resources across the team.”
Confusables Entry 50 / 1011 60-second read
Apportion vs. Proportion
Assigning shares versus a relative part of a whole.
The comparisoni
“We need to apportion the resources across the team.”
More examplesii
01
The liability was proportioned among the partners.
The liability was apportioned among the partners.
02
The apportion of failures was high.
The proportion of failures was high.
The ruleiii
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APPORTION = to divide and assign (action).
Both deal with 'parts' of a 'whole', but one is the act of giving and the other is the size of the piece.
Memory aidiv
Remember it like this
APPORTION is a verb (action). PROPORTION is a noun (position/size).