From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishallotal‧lot /əˈlɒt $ əˈlɑːt/ verb (allotted, allotting) [transitive] GIVEto use a particular amount of time for something, or give a particular share of money, space etc to someone or something SYN allocateallot something to something/somebody Try and allot two or three hours a day to revision. Each school will be allotted twenty seats.allot somebody something Everyone who works for the company has been allotted ten shares. —allotted adjective [only before noun] The department has already spent more than its allotted budget.→ See Verb table
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allot• Their chances rose or fell depending upon the country to which they had been allotted.• Lincoln felt that McClellan had not allotted an adequate force to the defense of Washington.• Each, regardless of seniority or committee assignment, is allotted eighteen employees.• He has a room allotted in the social sciences department and special arrangements with the university domestic staff.• Susan was alone in the double sleeping-space which had been allotted to Michael and her for the night.• Once the tasks were allotted to the newly-recruited committee members, the meeting then turned its attention to the lawyers.• We will need to use all the clues at hand if we are to find the site in our allotted two dives.allot somebody something• Each speaker was allotted 30 minutes.From Longman Business Dictionaryallotal‧lot /əˈlɒtəˈlɑːt/ verb (past tense and past participle allotted, present participle allotting) [transitive] to decide officially to give something to someone or to use something for a particular purposeEach employee was allotted 100 shares in the company.→ See Verb tableOrigin allot (1400-1500) Old French aloter, from lot “person's share” 