Assistance, especially money, food, and other necessities, given to the needy or dispossessed

• welfare

  1. Health, happiness, and good fortune; well-being:
  2. Financial or other aid provided, especially by the government, to people in need.

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• relief

  1. The easing of a pain, distress, or anxiety:
  2. Something that alleviates pain, distress, or anxiety:
  3. Aid in time of danger:

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• public assistance

  1. Aid, such as money or food, given to homeless and other financially needy people, the aged, or the inhabitants of a disaster-stricken area; relief.

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• handout

  1. Food, clothing, or money given to the needy.
  2. A folder or leaflet circulated free of charge.
  3. A sheet or sheets of paper containing topical information, distributed to people attending a speech, lecture, or meeting.

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• aid

  1. To provide assistance, support, or relief to:
  2. To provide assistance, support, or relief:
  3. The act or result of helping; assistance:

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That which is allotted

• divvy

  1. To divide. Often used with up:
  2. A share or portion.

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• cut

  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:

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• split

  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:

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• share

  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:

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• ration

  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.

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• quota

  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:

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• quantum

  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.

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• portion

  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.

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• part

  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:

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• measure

  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.

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• lot

  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:

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• allowance

  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:

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• allotment

  1. The act of allotting:
  2. Something allotted:

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• allocation

  1. an allocating or being allocated
  2. a thing or amount allocated

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