Subdivide vs Apportion - What's the difference?
subdivide | apportion |
(ambitransitive) To divide into smaller sections.
# (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.
#* 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, 3:
(ambitransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions
* Dryden
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 subdivide and apportion
is that subdivide is (ambitransitive) to divide into smaller sections while apportion is to divide and distribute portions of a whole.subdivide
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Verb
- This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it .
- Several local families recorded plots of land as additions to the town's territory and subdivided them into house lots.
- The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.
apportion
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(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.