measure (out)

verb

Definition of measure (out)next
as in to share (out)

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  1. dish out
  2. hand out
  3. split
  4. dole out
  5. proportion
  6. appropriate
  7. divide
  8. portion
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  • Four players scored at least 12 points, while senior guard Alvaro Cardenas enjoyed another typical night for him, dishing out nine assists.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The most eyebrow-raising part of the rambling hourlong performance came when Trump dished out threats at allies over his pet causes.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of dish out
Verb
  • The prizes, including a Life Achievement Award for Jane Fonda, will be handed out on Feb. 23, live on Netflix, with Kristen Bell as host.
    Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Team-mates stood still or, in the case of Boubacar Kamara, looked towards the touchline and to no one in particular, instead throwing his hands out.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of hand out
Verb
  • That amount would be split between border security, such as wall funding and money for Border Patrol agents, and modernizing U.S. defense systems.
    Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Jan. 2025
  • One Pacific Palisades home that survived the Palisades Fire was later split in half by a landslide, CBS News Los Angeles' Rick Montanez reported.
    Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of split
Verb
  • The group says the agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights then told the group to expect funding by January 6th — even though grantmakers were initially anticipated to be able to start doling out subgrants in the summer of 2024.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Musk, with interests from Tesla to Space X to the messaging platform X, has lots of invested in how the government decides to dole out funds and regulation.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of dole out
Verb
  • According to data from the U.S. Treasury, 20% of the 2025 fiscal year budget was proportioned for social security, with 14% for national defense.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But the Ray’s best feature is its excellent sound, pumping out clear, musical, and surprisingly meaty audio for a bar proportioned more like a Bluetooth speaker.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of proportion
Verb
  • Hecht also dedicated himself to improving poor Texans’ access to the justice system, pushing the Legislature to appropriate more funding for legal aid and reducing the barriers to getting meaningful legal resolutions.
    Eleanor Klibanoff, Austin American-Statesman, 30 Dec. 2024
  • In October, the SBA announced that funds for its disaster loan program have been depleted because of the two disasters, meaning the agency cannot offer these low-interest, long-term loans to disaster survivors until Congress appropriates funding.
    Rhett Buttle, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of appropriate
Verb
  • On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Other volunteers set up in the job center’s parking lot to divide donations into care packages of food, toiletries, water and clothing.
    Yvonne Condes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of divide
Verb
  • Just make a big batch of food—I’ve found stew-type dishes work best—portion it out into Tupperware containers, and stash them in the fridge.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The temptation to portion out one’s cathedral of counterpoised and cantilevered writing into knickknacks certainly is vivid to him.
    Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
Definition of portion
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