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Podcast: Word of the Day
Episode: Apportion
Description: Apportion is a verb that means to divide and allocate.
Having been around since the 15th century, our word of the day derives from the Latin word portionner (POOR shun her) which means ’to divide.’
We were told the coach would apportion the pizza equally between players. But the pizza was so tiny, that just meant everybody received an equally sized crumb.