Portion

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  • noun. A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
  • noun. A part separated from a whole.
  • noun. A part that is allotted to a person or group, as.
  • noun. A helping of food.
  • noun. The part of an estate received by an heir.
  • noun. A woman's dowry.
  • noun. A person's lot or fate.
  • transitive verb. To divide into parts or shares for distribution; parcel.
  • transitive verb. To provide with a share, inheritance, or dowry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To divide or distribute into portions or shares; parcel; allot in shares.
  • To endow with a portion or an inheritance.
  • noun. A part of a whole, whether separated from it, or considered by itself though not actually separated.
  • noun. A part assigned or contributed; a share; an allowance or allotment; hence, a helping at table.
  • noun. Lot; fate; destiny.
  • noun. The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, or to be distributed to him in the settlement of the estate.
  • noun. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  • noun. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
  • noun. A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
  • noun. The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
  • noun. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
  • transitive verb. To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
  • transitive verb. To endow with a portion or inheritance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An allocated amount.
  • verb. To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
  • verb. To endow with a portion or inheritance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
  • noun. assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
  • noun. the allotment of some amount by dividing something
  • noun. an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
  • verb. give out
  • noun. something determined in relation to something that includes it
  • noun. money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
  • noun. something less than the whole of a human artifact
  • Word Usage
    "So at the end of the day, the onus is on the buyers to decide whether they are comfortable with the term "portion of the proceeds," and whether they choose to bid on items that not only support charity, but benefit a celebrity's bank account even more."
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    amount  aspect  half  mass  part  
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    verb-form