apportionable

Able to allocate

Apportionable means capable of being divided and distributed according to some plan or formula.

Costs, taxes, or blame may be apportionable among parties: The liability was apportionable among the three defendants.

The word appears most often in legal and financial contexts where shares must be allocated fairly.

divisibility

divisible

Able to be separated

partitionable · subdivisible · separable · breakable · parceling · quantifiable · measurable · calculable · rateable · distributable

legal

taxable

Subject to government levy

costs · estate · assets · inheritance · property · settlement · judgment · statutory · contractual · fiduciary

allocation

allotment

Designated share or portion

assignation · entitlement · provision · dispensation · grant · endowment · stipend · dole · measure · share

proportioning

prorating

Dividing by proportion

calibrated · weighted · scaled · balanced · adjusted · graduated · tiered · relative · commensurate · corresponding

Opposites
divisibility

apportionableindivisible

Unable to be divided

undividable · inseparable · whole · unitary · atomic

assignability

apportionableunassignable

Cannot be allocated elsewhere

undistributable · collective · shared · communal · joint

Family

portion, proportion, proportions, apportion, proportional, apportioned, proportionate, apportionment, apportions

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