Allotment
/əˈlɔt.mɛnt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of allotting.
nounSomething allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed
Sentence Examples
Your allotment is $20.
A good method for investing is a monthly allotment.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Each family received a weekly ____ of food supplies during the crisis.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The family used their small ____ to grow fresh vegetables for the year.
Word Origin & History
From Old French alotement (modern French allotement). By surface analysis, allot + -ment.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"You will achieve more in designated sessions of quiet uninterrupted periods than in a longer allotment of time broken up by various activities."
— 2007, Ruth Chambers, Kay Mohanna, David Wall, How to Succeed as a Leader:
"The allotment of particular names to special ideas which gradually disengage themselves from a general idea is apparently determined by accident."
— 1873, Henry Sumner Maine, The early history of the property of married women:
"The history attached to it could not but recur to Emily as she passed, and her heart sank within her—not with fear, but at the thought, how much of misery there was in the world; and why should she be spared amid such general allotment?"
— 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 13:
"Similar customs prevailed in a part of Friesland, the most notable of which was the ‘Jus Theelacticum,’ or custom of the Theel lands, doles, or allottable lands in East Friesland, not far from the mouth of the Ems. There an inherited allotment was indivisible; on the death of the father it passed intact to the youngest son, and on his death without issue it fell into the possession of the whole community"
— 1906, Thomas William Shore, chapter 9, in Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race:
"Though most interviews are aired in ten-minute segments, very often they are longer than that specific time allotment."
— 1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Each family received a weekly ____ of food supplies during the crisis.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The family used their small ____ to grow fresh vegetables for the year.