The word portion comes from the Latin "portĭo", "portiōnis" which derives from the "proportion" and not from the opposite that makes a relationship of correspondence and balance or the symmetry that exists between various components that are related to each other, by size and for the quality, so in this case it can be said that the portion allows to mention the piece or piece that is separated from a whole. ExampleWould you give me a piece of cake, please, "a large portion of the employees do not get the minimum wage specified in the regulation." "The boss told me to spend time during the day learning how to use a new system."
It is the most usual of the idea that this is related to food, these portions are the portions that are exercised in a silver when people go to eat, for example you can say "Yesterday I ate three pieces of cake", " what I like about this dining room is that the portions are rich ”, “ the nutritionist advised me to reduce the size of the portions ”
The portion can be the sum or the quota that refers to a fixed and proportional part of something that uses it more than everything to mention the amount of money that each of the people will have in the framework of a certain distribution. "The portion of the profits obtained by each of the members of the cooperative that must be the same for each of its workers", or "the employees will receive a portion more and more ladies of the beneficiaries. "