preportion

To divide into individual portions before use.

Verb

  1. To divide into individual portions before use.
    • Take the time to review the menu and identify items that can be preportioned. - 2005, Restaurant Startup & Growth, page 64:
    • In the second and fourth weeks, trained servers preportioned kindergarteners' plates with 4 nuggets. - 2013, Issues in Teaching and Education Policy, Research, and Special Topics, →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. - 2016, Brooke Griffin, Skinny...

Origin

From pre- + portion.

Forms

preportions preportioning preportioned