allotment

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allotment

n. share, portion; lot in life;(British) small piece of land; garden

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Allotment

Allotment may refer to:

Allotment (gardening), a small area of land, let out at a nominal yearly rent by local government or independent allotment associations, for individuals to grow their own food
Allotment (travel industry), a block of pre-negotiated carrier seats or hotel rooms held by a travel organizer till a certain period
Allotment, a small area of land held in trust by the U.S. Government for the benefit of an individual Native American (see Dawes Act, a program of the U.S. Government, beginning in 1887, to break up Indian reservations and allot tribal land to individual Native Americans).
Allotment, also known as sortition, a method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag
The Allotment, a 1988 book by Colin Ward
Allotment, a method by which a company allocates over-subscribed shares - see Subscription (finance)

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allotment

Noun
1. a share set aside for a specific purpose
(synonym) allocation
(hypernym) share, portion, part, percentage
(hyponym) reallocation
2. the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state"
(synonym) apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation
(hypernym) distribution
(hyponym) grant, subsidization, subsidisation
(derivation) distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out

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allotment

n. zahrádka

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allotment

Rzecz. ogródek działkowy