0 present participle of apportion
1 to give or share out something, especially blame or money, among several people or things:
It will be clear from the earlier comments that this should not be regarded as an exercise in apportioning blame.
Systems analysis is designed to promote an open approach, with avoidance of apportioning blame.
The political philosophy of neoliberalism was unequivocal in apportioning the responsibility for funding of scientific practices.
Intuitively, when importance splitting occurs, the apportioning of a photon's weight among its split daughter photons maintains a 'conservation of photons'.
Apportioning responsibility for local economic conditions to subnational officials in multi-tiered systems is quite difficult in general, but the possibility of doing so is heavily conditioned by economic geography.
Thirdly, people with cancer avoid discussion with important others either to avert apportioning blame or because they may side against the patient and alongside the clinician.
Older people naturally have less possibility of achieving added life-years from treatment, quality-adjusted or not, although apportioning the effects of treatment from those of an illness's natural history is difficult.
In so doing one can dig down to attain information about system problems, promoting a questioning attitude, rather than superficially assessing the case and inappropriately apportioning blame to an individual.
