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Another word for allotment

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Noun

  1. That which is allotted

      1. To divide. Often used with up:
      2. A share or portion.
      1. To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.
      2. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever:
      3. To sever the edges or ends of; shorten:
      1. To divide (something) from end to end, into layers, or along the grain:
      2. To cause to be split unintentionally:
      3. To cause to undergo nuclear fission or division into elements:
      1. A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group:
      2. An equitable portion:
      3. One of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a company is divided:
      1. A fixed portion, especially an amount of food allotted to persons in military service or to civilians in times of scarcity.
      2. Food issued or available to members of a group.
      3. To supply with rations.
      1. A proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment.
      2. A production assignment.
      3. A number or percentage, especially of people, constituting or designated as an upper limit:
      1. The smallest amount of a physical quantity that can exist independently, especially a discrete quantity of electromagnetic radiation.
      2. This amount of energy regarded as a unit.
      3. A quantity or amount.
      1. A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
      2. A part separated from a whole.
      3. A helping of food.
      1. A portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole.
      2. Any of several equal portions or fractions that can constitute a whole or into which a whole can be divided:
      3. A division of a book or artistic work such as a film:
      1. A reference standard or sample used for the quantitative comparison of properties:
      2. A unit specified by a scale, such as an inch, or by variable conditions, such as a day's march.
      3. A system of measurement, such as the metric system.
      1. A large extent, amount, or number:
      2. Used adverbially to mean “to a great degree or extent” or “frequently”:
      3. A number of associated people or things:
      1. The distribution by the government of relief payments to the unemployed.
      2. A share of money, food, or clothing that has been charitably given:
      3. One's fate.
      1. The act of allowing.
      2. An amount that is allowed or granted:
      3. Something, such as money, given at regular intervals or for a specific purpose:
      1. an allocating or being allocated
      2. a thing or amount allocated
    See also:

    collect

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Another word for allotment

Noun

  1. A portion allotted

      1. A portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole.
      2. Any of several equal portions or fractions that can constitute a whole or into which a whole can be divided:
      3. A division of a book or artistic work such as a film:
      1. A large extent, amount, or number:
      2. Used adverbially to mean “to a great degree or extent” or “frequently”:
      3. A number of associated people or things:
      1. A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
      2. A part separated from a whole.
      3. A helping of food.
    See also:

    share

  2. Distribution

    See also:

    distribution

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Sentence Examples

  • a day, with free shelter and an allotment for private cultivation.

  • 4 In the allotment of the constituencies to the various tax-paying capacity was taken into consideration.

  • Under the Dawes Allotment Act of February 1887, and a special statute of March 1889, an agreement was made with some Indians, and about 11,000,000 acres, or about half of the reserve, was thrown open to settlement on the 10th of February 1890.

  • It was a long night, but a nice night; certainly not a night with an adequate allotment of sleep—not with the naked body of beautiful Betty from Boise beside him and a world gone topsy-turvy, and wondering lord knows what lay ahead in the towering mountains that surrounded them.

  • The powers of the old township were much more extensive than those of the present city of Boston, including as they did the determination of the residence of strangers, the allotment of land, the grant of citizenship, the fixing of wages and prices, of the conditions of lawsuits and even a voice in matters of peace and war.

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