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Definition
to give out — especially a share of something- She allotted part of the yard for the dogs and part for a garden.
allotted = to give out — especially a share of something
- She shared her allotment of rations with those who were weakest.
- I wondered if Mama was getting the allotment checks.Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels
- The land we lived on was Cherokee land, allotted to my mother because of the Cherokee blood that flowed in her veins.Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows
- Hurstwood laid down his fifteen cents and crept off with weary steps to his allotted room.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- We sincerely hope that the time allotted for the teams [sic] practice was useful and productive for the coaching staff and the players alike.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- I saw it as a perfect mosaic, each person playing his or her allotted part.Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
- I'll allot half for the lighthouse and the other half for your own business.Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
- Weren't we, as sentient beings, put upon the earth to be happy, in the brief time allotted to us?Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- And yet nobody prolonged his underwater work beyond the time allotted him.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Happy the parents of so fair a child; Happier the man whom favourable stars Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow.William Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew
- Cora raised her eyebrows, but didn't argue—they were allotted only one glass each tonight.Kass Morgan -- The 100
- Some such boons as these were the best which Fortune allotted to poor little Amelia.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- My granda's allotment's that way.David Almond -- Clay
- A prescribed or allotted task, a share of labor.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- Conrad had all the common sense that his children, together, were allotted.Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
- Laila had to pester him, plead with him, in order to spin out the allotted minutes with Aziza a bit longer.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- He thinks if we don't impress them they'll cut back on his dealer perk allotment.Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
- Although she was expecting a third child in September, she would never eat her morning allotment of bread but passed it through the fence to him.Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
- Our headmistress allots me thirty conduct marks, and in penance, I am to do her bidding for a week.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
allotment = something given out as a share
allotted = given as her share