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Definition of allot in English: allotverballotted, allotting, allots əˈlɒtəˈlɑt [with object]Give or apportion (something) to someone. equal time was allotted to each with two objects I was allotted a little room in the servants' block Example sentencesExamples - At that point, if you steal my remote, or my one daily allotted cookie, I will wail on you.
- Finally, my ears perked when she rattled off our room numbers and allotted our keys.
- The statistics are difficult to assess as allotting causes of various types of collapse to overwork is medically controversial and often socially embarrassing.
- She allots roles only towards the end, so that ‘every girl knows the play, and knows it well‘.
- To answer that question, Snyder told me that she allots two hours a day where she must sit down and write.
- In all the big swing states, electors are allotted on a winner-take-all basis.
- She made a name for herself in the mid-1990s by charging that MIT discriminated against female scientists, allotting them less lab space and giving them fewer plum assignments.
- We were then divided into groups and told to allot tasks such as kayaking, snorkelling and archery to various members.
- The first floor is thought to have housed a communal dormitory, with each vicar allotted a bay.
- The report calls for a dramatic restructuring of how aid is allotted in the region.
- Intent and effort toward holistic living is more important than trying to allot equal time to different parts of life.
- In an angry outburst against institutions that fleece their students, he argues against allotting different dates to pay fees for different classes.
- Much of the human population there lacks the essentials, so of course homeless dogs and cats are allotted next to nothing.
- One portion of each side of the road is allotted for pedestrians, the other portion for cyclists.
- Their three-room house was built five years ago on five cents of land allotted by the Government.
- While allotting money to these institutional programs is federally mandated, states are not required to provide home-based alternatives, and many don't.
- They should resign from those positions because the posts were allotted to the party, not to them.
- They were allotted three meals a day, but there was a catch: their hands never came out of restraints.
- The government too had to be blamed as a portion of the lake was allotted for sale.
- His uncle who has a furniture shop has allotted a table space outside the shop to help him operate from there.
Synonyms allocate, assign, issue, award, grant, administer, devote earmark for, designate for, set aside for, appropriate for, budget for share out, apportion, portion out, distribute, hand out, deal out, dole out, give out, parcel out, ration out, divide out, divide up, dispense, measure out, mete out informal divvy up, dish out
Origin Late 15th century: from Old French aloter, from a- (from Latin ad 'to') + loter 'divide into lots'. Rhymes begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, grot, hot, jot, knot, lot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, rot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, slot, snot, sot, spot, squat, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht Definition of allot in US English: allotverbəˈlätəˈlɑt [with object]Give or apportion (something) to someone as a share or task. equal time was allotted to each with two objects I was allotted a little room in the servants' block Example sentencesExamples - In an angry outburst against institutions that fleece their students, he argues against allotting different dates to pay fees for different classes.
- One portion of each side of the road is allotted for pedestrians, the other portion for cyclists.
- At that point, if you steal my remote, or my one daily allotted cookie, I will wail on you.
- She allots roles only towards the end, so that ‘every girl knows the play, and knows it well‘.
- The statistics are difficult to assess as allotting causes of various types of collapse to overwork is medically controversial and often socially embarrassing.
- They were allotted three meals a day, but there was a catch: their hands never came out of restraints.
- While allotting money to these institutional programs is federally mandated, states are not required to provide home-based alternatives, and many don't.
- The government too had to be blamed as a portion of the lake was allotted for sale.
- She made a name for herself in the mid-1990s by charging that MIT discriminated against female scientists, allotting them less lab space and giving them fewer plum assignments.
- Finally, my ears perked when she rattled off our room numbers and allotted our keys.
- Intent and effort toward holistic living is more important than trying to allot equal time to different parts of life.
- In all the big swing states, electors are allotted on a winner-take-all basis.
- Their three-room house was built five years ago on five cents of land allotted by the Government.
- To answer that question, Snyder told me that she allots two hours a day where she must sit down and write.
- The report calls for a dramatic restructuring of how aid is allotted in the region.
- Much of the human population there lacks the essentials, so of course homeless dogs and cats are allotted next to nothing.
- The first floor is thought to have housed a communal dormitory, with each vicar allotted a bay.
- His uncle who has a furniture shop has allotted a table space outside the shop to help him operate from there.
- We were then divided into groups and told to allot tasks such as kayaking, snorkelling and archery to various members.
- They should resign from those positions because the posts were allotted to the party, not to them.
Synonyms allocate, assign, issue, award, grant, administer, devote
Origin Late 15th century: from Old French aloter, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to’) + loter ‘divide into lots’. |