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portion
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Noun
  • an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
    • the helpings were all small
    • his portion was larger than hers
    • there's enough for two servings each
  • money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
  • your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
    • whatever my fortune may be
    • deserved a better fate
    • has a happy lot
    • the luck of the Irish
    • a victim of circumstances
    • success that was her portion
  • assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
    • he wanted his share in cash
  • the allotment of some amount by dividing something
    • death gets more than its share of attention from theologians
  • something less than the whole of a human artifact
    • the rear part of the house
    • glue the two parts together
  • something determined in relation to something that includes it
    • he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself
    • I read a portion of the manuscript
    • the smaller component is hard to reach
    • the animal constituent of plankton
Verb
  • give out
    • We were assigned new uniforms
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