Arrange vs Apportion - What's the difference?
arrange | apportion |
To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To put in order, to organize.
To plan; to prepare in advance.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
(label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
To divide and distribute portions of a whole.
Specifically, to do so in a fair and equitable manner; to allocate proportionally.
As verbs the difference between arrange and apportion
is that arrange is to set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner while apportion is to divide and distribute portions of a whole.arrange
English
Verb
(arrang)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* arrangementapportion
English
Verb
(en verb)- The controlling party had apportioned the voting districts such that their party would be favored in the next election.
- The children were required to dump all of their Halloween candy on the table so that their parents could apportion it among them.
