Subdivide vs Apportion - What's the difference?

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.

(ambitransitive) To divide into smaller sections.

# (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.

This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it .

#* 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, 3:

Several local families recorded plots of land as additions to the town's territory and subdivided them into house lots.

(ambitransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions

* Dryden

The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.

(en verb)

To divide and distribute portions of a whole.

The controlling party had apportioned the voting districts such that their party would be favored in the next election.

Specifically, to do so in a fair and equitable manner; to allocate proportionally.

The children were required to dump all of their Halloween candy on the table so that their parents could apportion it among them.

* unapportioned * apportionment

* (divide and distribute ): allocate, allot, dispense, parcel out, share out

* (divide and distribute ): amass, concentrate, consolidate, gather, reassemble