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Definition of Portion out
1. Verb. Give out as one's portion or share.
Entails: Divide, Part, Separate
Generic synonyms: Distribute, Give Out, Hand Out, Pass Out
Derivative terms: Apportionable, Deal, Share, Sharer, Sharing
Definition of Portion out
1. Verb. (transitive) To distribute something in portions or shares; to apportion or allot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portion Out
Literary usage of Portion out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the by Carl Bezold, Leonard William King, Wilfred G. Lambert, Alan Ralph Millard (1896)
"The text of Column b corresponds with Rm. 1 (see above, p. 1570), Column IV,
lines 73 ff. [82-5-22, 1] portion out of the middle of a ..."
2. The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the by Inchbald, Elizabeth Inchbald (1808)
"Howe'er you hard, imperious censures doom, And portion out our lot in worlds to
come, Those, who, with honest hearts, pursue the right, ..."
3. A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII by John Chetwode Eustace (1817)
"... which Heaven once entrusted to her hand to humble the pride of tyrants and to
protect opprest nations, to portion out kingdoms and provinces, ..."
4. The Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery: Comprising Its Rise by George Spence, Henry Maddock (1850)
"... covenants that he will settle or secure a portion out of particular lands, or
that he will settle particular lands (in which case, as before observed, ..."
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