preportion
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preportion (third-person singular simple present preportions, present participle preportioning, simple past and past participle preportioned)
- To divide into individual portions before use.
- 2005, Restaurant Startup & Growth, page 64:
- Take the time to review the menu and identify items that can be preportioned.
- 2013, Issues in Teaching and Education Policy, Research, and Special Topics, →ISBN:
- In the second and fourth weeks, trained servers preportioned kindergarteners' plates with 4 nuggets.
- 2016, Brooke Griffin, Skinny Suppers: 125 Lightened-Up, Healthier Meals for Your Family, →ISBN:
- I just wasn't sure if I wanted to devote part of my weekend to chopping veggies, cooking and dicing chicken breasts, and preportioning everything when I wasn't even cooking a meal.