Allotment synonyms

ə-lŏt'mənt

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quota
A proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment.
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allowance
Allowance is defined as a specific amount of something available for use.
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lot
One's fortune in life; one's fate:
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allotting
Distribution
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portion
A part or limited quantity of anything, esp. that allotted to a person; share
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part
(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. syn. transl.
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apportionment
The proportional distribution of the number of members of the US House of Representatives on the basis of the population of each state.
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share (related)
(Finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
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distribution (related)
The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.
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allocation
An allocating or being allocated
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assignment
The definition of an assignment is a task that has been given to someone.
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dole
A giving out of money or food to those in great need; relief
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ration
Food issued or available to members of a group.
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split
A thing that is formed by splitting, such as a strip of flexible wood used for making baskets.
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cut
A share or portion.
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divvy
A foolish person.
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collect (related)
A brief formal prayer that is used in various Western liturgies before the epistle and that varies with the day.
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apportioning
the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
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parceling
The act of separating into parts and distributing
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assignation
An appointment to meet, esp. one made secretly by lovers, or the meeting itself; tryst; rendezvous
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halver
A fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide
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allotments (related)
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council-owned (related)
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open space (related)
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orchard (related)
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one-acre (related)
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measure
Limit; bounds:
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quantum
The amount or quantity observably present, or available. [from 18th c.]
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parcelling
(Nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used also in mousing on the stays, etc.
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hungerhill (related)
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Allotment Sentence Examples

  • One quarter of them have received allotments of only 2.9 acres per male, and one-half less than 8.5 to 11.4 acres - the normal size of the allotment necessary to the subsistence of a family under the three-fields system being estimated at 28 to 42 acres.

  • The Council attempted to establish a general government over its entire domain, but the scheme of some of its members for supporting such a government with contributions from each member in return for an allotment of land was a failure, and although Robert Gorges, the second son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, was sent over as governor-general in 1623, he accomplished nothing and returned in the next year in disgust.

  • In 1639, in the epistle to the reader of his most noticeable book historically, his Triall of our Church-Forsakers, he tells us, "I have lived now, by God's gratious dispensation, above fifty years, and in the place of my allotment two and twenty full."

  • He entered into an agreement with C. Marius, and in order to gain the favour of his soldiers proposed that each of his veterans should receive an allotment of Ioo jugera of land in Africa.

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