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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-lot-muhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈlɒt mənt |
Definition of allotment
Origin :- 1570s, "action of allotting," from Middle French allotement, from Old French aloter (see allot). Or else a native formation from allot + -ment. Meaning "portion assigned to someone or some purpose" is from 1670s.
- noun portion assigned or given
- Or I could make them over to a limited company, and join the board after allotment.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- There are now allotment associations in many parts of the country.
- Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy
- The shares fell mighty low in the allotment, Davy; how was that?
- Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
- Having his own allotment of land, he was in a much larger sense a human being.
- Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo
- The allotment of Rabirius Faustus is the only one known entirely.
- Extract from : « Pagan and Christian Rome » by Rodolfo Lanciani
- But is the allotment correct and the reward proportioned by his efforts?
- Extract from : « The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice » by Stephen Leacock
- The goal is not any kind of division of income or allotment of property.
- Extract from : « The New Society » by Walther Rathenau
- Her master was white but he had married into de Nation and so she got a freedmen's allotment too.
- Extract from : « Slave Narratives, Oklahoma » by Various
- On the allotment of provinces, Sicily fell to him, with power to cross into Africa if he pleased.
- Extract from : « Hannibal » by Jacob Abbott
- No allotment, or any part thereof, shall be under-let or exchanged.
- Extract from : « The Toilers of the Field » by Richard Jefferies
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