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noun

Allotment n.

The act of allotting; assignment.

That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. "The alloments of God and nature." "A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs."

(law) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.

Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. (Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Allotment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Allotment" Quotes from Famous Books

... gravely prejudice the success of the 29th Division in that quarter and that I understood success there was more vital than on our right flank. After consultation with the G.O.C. 29th Division, the Corps Commander agreed with my allotment of the artillery. We then did our utmost to obtain the loan of more guns, howitzers or ammunition from the French without success and with the result that the ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton

... the crushing conditions of prolonged monotonous work—the most deadening of all work—and a real advance towards those ideals of democracy which are still so remote, so it is with the movement in the Home. That also is the claim for a new and fairer allotment of responsibility, of larger opportunities for freedom and leisure. If in the home the husband is still to be regarded as the capitalist and the wife as the labourer, then at all events it has to be recognised that he owes her not only the satisfaction of her ...

— Little Essays of Love and Virtue • Havelock Ellis

... During his canvass (and he is expected to "run," not merely to "stand") he will have from his own party a support that should make him blush, and from all the others an opposition that will stick at nothing to accomplish his satisfactory defamation. After his election his partition and allotment of the loaves and fishes will estrange an important and thenceforth implacable faction of his following without appeasing the animosity of any one else; and during his entire service his sky will be dark with a flight ...

— The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce

... Arbitrate. Association of General Managers. Federal Injunction. Federal Riot Proclamation and Troops Detailed. Governor Altgeld's Protest. Debs. "Government by Injunction." Commission of Investigation. General Allotment of Indian Lands Under the ...

— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... are the causes of the series of updhis have for their substrate Brahman itself, there is no reason for their definite allotment (to definite individual souls), and hence again there is no definite separation of the spheres of experience. For the limiting adjuncts as well as the adrishtas cannot by their connexion with Brahman split up Brahman ...

— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

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