Definition of allotment in English:

allotment

noun əˈlɒtm(ə)ntəˈlɑtmənt

1British A plot of land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers.
Example sentencesExamples
- Their families eke out a living from a few goats and what they can grow on rough allotments.
- Membership is open to anyone interested in organic growing, be it garden, farm, allotment, backyard or window box.
- She has her own organic allotment in York and is looking forward to learning from the experts on her travels.
- How many of these people rent the allotments or use the recreation ground regularly?
- I'm an impatient person, which can be a problem when you're trying to grow fruit and vegetables on an allotment.
- And, as I'm all for equality so my husband has to have somewhere to go as well, beyond the four walls of our house, I've rented an allotment - a little plot where he can go to do what men do.
- The couple have grown vegetables on two allotments on the Pickards Field site behind their home for 11 years.
- After capturing her childhood memories of rural Westmorland in The Green Lanes, author Betty Emmaline Walker has now turned her attention to the years of allotment gardening she has shared with her husband.
- The allotments are used for vegetables and fruits; these form the main bulk of our food.
- As newlyweds in the 1940s, the couple had rented a small allotment and grown potatoes, cabbages and salad crops, to help enrich their restricted diet amid post-war rationing.
- I would advise all residents who have considered renting an allotment to ‘come and have a grow’.
- They had hoped to establish a second hive on the allotment as their colony grew, but now say there is no way they will keep bees where they are clearly at risk.
- The wild cornflowers and sunflowers I grew on the allotment last year were a big hit: this year I'll be branching out with some retro dahlias.
- Growing vegetables and flowers on an allotment is not an exact science and some years are better than others, John explains.
- For years, he has been providing him with prime vegetables from his flourishing allotment at very little cost.
- The council will examine ways in which fruit and vegetables from allotments could be distributed to deprived communities.
- It's Easter weekend, and I don't have long to post because there is serious garden / allotment pootling to be done.
- Obviously having an allotment and growing everything from lettuces to blackcurrants on it helps in terms of eating locally.
- Some of them have nice gardens at home for flowers, and want the allotments to grow vegetables.
- The town is a patchwork of houses and public buildings interspersed with allotments where fruit and vegetables are grown.
1. 1.1US historical A piece of land made over by the government to a North American Indian.
  〈美，主史〉（政府拨给美洲印第安人的）留地
  Example sentencesExamples
  For the Choctaws in Oklahoma, allotment proved to be disastrous.
  But by 1926 all of the Oklahoma reservations (except the Osage mineral reservation) had been broken up by allotment.
  Other measures, most notably the Burke Act of 1906, allowed Indians to sell their allotments.
  Each nation was forced to accept individual allotments from a tribal land base, their nations were dissolved, and they were forced to become citizens of the new state.
  After Ojibwa families took their allotments, unallotted land on reservations was then sold to the public.
2mass noun The action of allotting something.
分配
the allotment of equity securities
Example sentencesExamples
- In the second phase, the collection of tax from private car owners, registration of vehicles and allotment of numbers to the newly registered vehicles would be performed by the computers.
- My decision to leave after 4th year came down to subject choice and teacher allotment.
- The authorities concerned should not permit allotment of sites in a layout till the government's specifications are met.
- The threat of delisting was related at the time to the fact that this allotment of shares had been made.
- However, some parents felt the organisers needed to devote attention to details such as time management and allotment of space for parents to wait while their wards were taking the test.
- Over the years, students from rural and semi-urban areas manage to get a seat via a single window system of allotment.
- Therefore, allotment of seats to youth festival winners for professional education courses should be stopped.
- And for many writers this allotment of time can seem altogether binding and a difficult task to stick to.
- The allotment of shares in the Estate Company, in satisfaction of the purchase price under the 1924 Contract, was made on 29th October 1924.
- You are right to blame the airlines, by the way: It is their design and their allotment of space that has turned coach accommodations into sardine cans for humans.
- The Estates arranged for the allotment and collection of taxes, disbursed revenue for public works, and granted the king a portion of the taxes known as the don gratuit.
Synonyms
allocation, assignment, issuing, issuance, awarding, grant, granting, administration, earmarking, designation, setting aside, budgeting
sharing out, apportionment, distribution, handing out, dealing out, doling out, giving out, parcelling out, rationing out, dividing out, dividing up, dispensation, measuring out, meting out
informal divvying up, dishing out
1. 2.1count noun An amount allotted to a person.
  配给物
  Example sentencesExamples
  The government would in turn pay farmers and landowners for quota allotments initially granted to limit production and support prices.
  Unsalaried county sheriffs in Mobile and throughout the South received sizable allotments from state coffers to house and feed prisoners.
  In the second stage the company will make a preferential allotment of 1.6 million shares to Star TV.
  If we start from an initial equality of resources brought about by the equal auction mechanism, individuals might then go on to use and invest and spend their resource allotments in various ways.
  It sold the upper leases to New Guinea Goldfields Limited in return for an allotment of 90,000 paid-up shares of $1 each in that company.
  Mr Mwencha said payments for share allotments is expected to be completed over a maximum period of 12 months commencing in January.
  You can view and print the actual scanned images of audited company accounts, changes in directors, allotments of shares, mortgages or charges and all recent documents filed.
  Although the no work no pay policy was in place throughout the strike, staff will also be compensated through extra payments in small allotments.
  A few weeks ago I commented that many of our Lower Mainland lakes were being stocked with noticeably smaller allotments of rainbow trout.
  The entire course is laid out for you with resource listings, websites, time allotments, lists of materials needed, and detailed steps of instruction.
  He then stated: ‘There is no reasonable prospect of equivalent allotments being provided, so there should be no allocation.’
  The Fin Review reported that there was heavy demand for the JB shares and many applicants had their requested allotments severely scaled back.
  Dosages can range from minimal allotments to toxic amounts with a variety of outcomes.
  They also note that D.C. programs could receive their full allotments by the time a spending bill weaves through Congress and reaches the President's desk.
  Synonyms
  quota, share, ration, grant, limit, portion, allocation, allowance, helping, batch, slice, stint, lot, measure, proportion, percentage
  informal cut, whack

Definition of allotment in US English:

allotment

nounəˈlɑtməntəˈlätmənt

1The amount of something allocated to a particular person.
配给物
the gadget shuts off the television set when a kid has used up his allotment
Example sentencesExamples
- Ideally, each of our test cards would have included the same memory allotment, but supply constraints left us with mismatched amounts of memory.
- Individual grants will range from $130,000 to $200,000, with an average allotment of $167,000.
- The morning's allotment is taken with a tall glass of lukewarm water because anything of too extreme a temperature would have provided an unnecessary shock to the system.
- A full-time SWAT team spends a huge allotment of its work hours in relevant firearms training.
- What I really wanted was a way to assign transactions from my checking account to different categories and have the computer tell me how close I was getting to my monthly allotment of funds.
- Also consider including an extra ‘half-cheat’ day, where on a second day during the week, you add half as many carbs to your daily allotment as you would add for a full cheat day.
- Because districts give each child a fixed allotment of several hundred dollars, bidding tutoring companies compete on program quality, not price.
- The holidays are busy, moody times, so depending on your attitude and time allotment for the day, you may want to choose either steady-state or interval training as your cardio option.
- Typesetting and printing ate the entire $2,000 allotment and more.
- The board provides a water allotment for the 5,800 farmers, based on expected runoff in the Tuolumne River watershed.
- All of us have an ample allotment of diabetic patients in our practices.
- Once the parental leave allotment is used up, parents are entitled to work a six-hour day until their youngest child's eighth birthday.
- Fernando says we should be prepared for a time allotment of anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour.
- They use up the allotment of a restricted commodity without gaining any benefits.
- Some faculty may feel threatened by the loss of control over the subject matter or the allotment of time within courses they had previously considered their personal domain.
- Being Mr. Kushner's alter ego, he at least gets an allotment of choice lines.
- After the Park Service and environmentalists won an allotment of water for the park, they also managed to keep petroleum companies at bay.
- It is not acceptable for a church to make a blanket statement such as ‘we never provide unpaid time off once an employee has used up his or her sick leave allotment.’
- The bill is $1.2 billion less than the previous year's allotment.
- My promotion brought my monthly pay up to $42, from which I sent my mother an allotment.
Synonyms
quota, share, ration, grant, limit, portion, allocation, allowance, helping, batch, slice, stint, lot, measure, proportion, percentage
1. 1.1US historical A piece of land deeded by the government to a North American Indian, as part of the division of tribally held land.
  Example sentencesExamples
  But by 1926 all of the Oklahoma reservations (except the Osage mineral reservation) had been broken up by allotment.
  Other measures, most notably the Burke Act of 1906, allowed Indians to sell their allotments.
  After Ojibwa families took their allotments, unallotted land on reservations was then sold to the public.
  For the Choctaws in Oklahoma, allotment proved to be disastrous.
  Each nation was forced to accept individual allotments from a tribal land base, their nations were dissolved, and they were forced to become citizens of the new state.
2. 1.2British A plot of land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers.
3. 1.3 The action of allotting.
  分配
  the allotment of equity securities
  Example sentencesExamples
  The threat of delisting was related at the time to the fact that this allotment of shares had been made.
  Therefore, allotment of seats to youth festival winners for professional education courses should be stopped.
  My decision to leave after 4th year came down to subject choice and teacher allotment.
  The allotment of shares in the Estate Company, in satisfaction of the purchase price under the 1924 Contract, was made on 29th October 1924.
  The Estates arranged for the allotment and collection of taxes, disbursed revenue for public works, and granted the king a portion of the taxes known as the don gratuit.
  In the second phase, the collection of tax from private car owners, registration of vehicles and allotment of numbers to the newly registered vehicles would be performed by the computers.
  And for many writers this allotment of time can seem altogether binding and a difficult task to stick to.
  The authorities concerned should not permit allotment of sites in a layout till the government's specifications are met.
  You are right to blame the airlines, by the way: It is their design and their allotment of space that has turned coach accommodations into sardine cans for humans.
  Over the years, students from rural and semi-urban areas manage to get a seat via a single window system of allotment.
  However, some parents felt the organisers needed to devote attention to details such as time management and allotment of space for parents to wait while their wards were taking the test.
  Synonyms
  allocation, assignment, issuing, issuance, awarding, grant, granting, administration, earmarking, designation, setting aside, budgeting

词汇	allotment
释义	Definition of allotment in English: allotment noun əˈlɒtm(ə)ntəˈlɑtmənt 1British A plot of land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers. Example sentencesExamples Their families eke out a living from a few goats and what they can grow on rough allotments. Membership is open to anyone interested in organic growing, be it garden, farm, allotment, backyard or window box. She has her own organic allotment in York and is looking forward to learning from the experts on her travels. How many of these people rent the allotments or use the recreation ground regularly? I'm an impatient person, which can be a problem when you're trying to grow fruit and vegetables on an allotment. And, as I'm all for equality so my husband has to have somewhere to go as well, beyond the four walls of our house, I've rented an allotment - a little plot where he can go to do what men do. The couple have grown vegetables on two allotments on the Pickards Field site behind their home for 11 years. After capturing her childhood memories of rural Westmorland in The Green Lanes, author Betty Emmaline Walker has now turned her attention to the years of allotment gardening she has shared with her husband. The allotments are used for vegetables and fruits; these form the main bulk of our food. As newlyweds in the 1940s, the couple had rented a small allotment and grown potatoes, cabbages and salad crops, to help enrich their restricted diet amid post-war rationing. I would advise all residents who have considered renting an allotment to ‘come and have a grow’. They had hoped to establish a second hive on the allotment as their colony grew, but now say there is no way they will keep bees where they are clearly at risk. The wild cornflowers and sunflowers I grew on the allotment last year were a big hit: this year I'll be branching out with some retro dahlias. Growing vegetables and flowers on an allotment is not an exact science and some years are better than others, John explains. For years, he has been providing him with prime vegetables from his flourishing allotment at very little cost. The council will examine ways in which fruit and vegetables from allotments could be distributed to deprived communities. It's Easter weekend, and I don't have long to post because there is serious garden / allotment pootling to be done. Obviously having an allotment and growing everything from lettuces to blackcurrants on it helps in terms of eating locally. Some of them have nice gardens at home for flowers, and want the allotments to grow vegetables. The town is a patchwork of houses and public buildings interspersed with allotments where fruit and vegetables are grown. 1.1US historical A piece of land made over by the government to a North American Indian. 〈美，主史〉（政府拨给美洲印第安人的）留地 Example sentencesExamples For the Choctaws in Oklahoma, allotment proved to be disastrous. But by 1926 all of the Oklahoma reservations (except the Osage mineral reservation) had been broken up by allotment. Other measures, most notably the Burke Act of 1906, allowed Indians to sell their allotments. Each nation was forced to accept individual allotments from a tribal land base, their nations were dissolved, and they were forced to become citizens of the new state. After Ojibwa families took their allotments, unallotted land on reservations was then sold to the public. 2mass noun The action of allotting something. 分配 the allotment of equity securities Example sentencesExamples In the second phase, the collection of tax from private car owners, registration of vehicles and allotment of numbers to the newly registered vehicles would be performed by the computers. My decision to leave after 4th year came down to subject choice and teacher allotment. The authorities concerned should not permit allotment of sites in a layout till the government's specifications are met. The threat of delisting was related at the time to the fact that this allotment of shares had been made. However, some parents felt the organisers needed to devote attention to details such as time management and allotment of space for parents to wait while their wards were taking the test. Over the years, students from rural and semi-urban areas manage to get a seat via a single window system of allotment. Therefore, allotment of seats to youth festival winners for professional education courses should be stopped. And for many writers this allotment of time can seem altogether binding and a difficult task to stick to. The allotment of shares in the Estate Company, in satisfaction of the purchase price under the 1924 Contract, was made on 29th October 1924. You are right to blame the airlines, by the way: It is their design and their allotment of space that has turned coach accommodations into sardine cans for humans. The Estates arranged for the allotment and collection of taxes, disbursed revenue for public works, and granted the king a portion of the taxes known as the don gratuit. Synonyms allocation, assignment, issuing, issuance, awarding, grant, granting, administration, earmarking, designation, setting aside, budgeting sharing out, apportionment, distribution, handing out, dealing out, doling out, giving out, parcelling out, rationing out, dividing out, dividing up, dispensation, measuring out, meting out informal divvying up, dishing out 2.1count noun An amount allotted to a person. 配给物 Example sentencesExamples The government would in turn pay farmers and landowners for quota allotments initially granted to limit production and support prices. Unsalaried county sheriffs in Mobile and throughout the South received sizable allotments from state coffers to house and feed prisoners. In the second stage the company will make a preferential allotment of 1.6 million shares to Star TV. If we start from an initial equality of resources brought about by the equal auction mechanism, individuals might then go on to use and invest and spend their resource allotments in various ways. It sold the upper leases to New Guinea Goldfields Limited in return for an allotment of 90,000 paid-up shares of $1 each in that company. Mr Mwencha said payments for share allotments is expected to be completed over a maximum period of 12 months commencing in January. You can view and print the actual scanned images of audited company accounts, changes in directors, allotments of shares, mortgages or charges and all recent documents filed. Although the no work no pay policy was in place throughout the strike, staff will also be compensated through extra payments in small allotments. A few weeks ago I commented that many of our Lower Mainland lakes were being stocked with noticeably smaller allotments of rainbow trout. The entire course is laid out for you with resource listings, websites, time allotments, lists of materials needed, and detailed steps of instruction. He then stated: ‘There is no reasonable prospect of equivalent allotments being provided, so there should be no allocation.’ The Fin Review reported that there was heavy demand for the JB shares and many applicants had their requested allotments severely scaled back. Dosages can range from minimal allotments to toxic amounts with a variety of outcomes. They also note that D.C. programs could receive their full allotments by the time a spending bill weaves through Congress and reaches the President's desk. Synonyms quota, share, ration, grant, limit, portion, allocation, allowance, helping, batch, slice, stint, lot, measure, proportion, percentage informal cut, whack Definition of allotment in US English: allotment nounəˈlɑtməntəˈlätmənt 1The amount of something allocated to a particular person. 配给物 the gadget shuts off the television set when a kid has used up his allotment Example sentencesExamples Ideally, each of our test cards would have included the same memory allotment, but supply constraints left us with mismatched amounts of memory. Individual grants will range from $130,000 to $200,000, with an average allotment of $167,000. The morning's allotment is taken with a tall glass of lukewarm water because anything of too extreme a temperature would have provided an unnecessary shock to the system. A full-time SWAT team spends a huge allotment of its work hours in relevant firearms training. What I really wanted was a way to assign transactions from my checking account to different categories and have the computer tell me how close I was getting to my monthly allotment of funds. Also consider including an extra ‘half-cheat’ day, where on a second day during the week, you add half as many carbs to your daily allotment as you would add for a full cheat day. Because districts give each child a fixed allotment of several hundred dollars, bidding tutoring companies compete on program quality, not price. The holidays are busy, moody times, so depending on your attitude and time allotment for the day, you may want to choose either steady-state or interval training as your cardio option. Typesetting and printing ate the entire $2,000 allotment and more. The board provides a water allotment for the 5,800 farmers, based on expected runoff in the Tuolumne River watershed. All of us have an ample allotment of diabetic patients in our practices. Once the parental leave allotment is used up, parents are entitled to work a six-hour day until their youngest child's eighth birthday. Fernando says we should be prepared for a time allotment of anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. They use up the allotment of a restricted commodity without gaining any benefits. Some faculty may feel threatened by the loss of control over the subject matter or the allotment of time within courses they had previously considered their personal domain. Being Mr. Kushner's alter ego, he at least gets an allotment of choice lines. After the Park Service and environmentalists won an allotment of water for the park, they also managed to keep petroleum companies at bay. It is not acceptable for a church to make a blanket statement such as ‘we never provide unpaid time off once an employee has used up his or her sick leave allotment.’ The bill is $1.2 billion less than the previous year's allotment. My promotion brought my monthly pay up to $42, from which I sent my mother an allotment. Synonyms quota, share, ration, grant, limit, portion, allocation, allowance, helping, batch, slice, stint, lot, measure, proportion, percentage 1.1US historical A piece of land deeded by the government to a North American Indian, as part of the division of tribally held land. Example sentencesExamples But by 1926 all of the Oklahoma reservations (except the Osage mineral reservation) had been broken up by allotment. Other measures, most notably the Burke Act of 1906, allowed Indians to sell their allotments. After Ojibwa families took their allotments, unallotted land on reservations was then sold to the public. For the Choctaws in Oklahoma, allotment proved to be disastrous. Each nation was forced to accept individual allotments from a tribal land base, their nations were dissolved, and they were forced to become citizens of the new state. 1.2British A plot of land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers. 1.3 The action of allotting. 分配 the allotment of equity securities Example sentencesExamples The threat of delisting was related at the time to the fact that this allotment of shares had been made. Therefore, allotment of seats to youth festival winners for professional education courses should be stopped. My decision to leave after 4th year came down to subject choice and teacher allotment. The allotment of shares in the Estate Company, in satisfaction of the purchase price under the 1924 Contract, was made on 29th October 1924. The Estates arranged for the allotment and collection of taxes, disbursed revenue for public works, and granted the king a portion of the taxes known as the don gratuit. In the second phase, the collection of tax from private car owners, registration of vehicles and allotment of numbers to the newly registered vehicles would be performed by the computers. And for many writers this allotment of time can seem altogether binding and a difficult task to stick to. The authorities concerned should not permit allotment of sites in a layout till the government's specifications are met. You are right to blame the airlines, by the way: It is their design and their allotment of space that has turned coach accommodations into sardine cans for humans. Over the years, students from rural and semi-urban areas manage to get a seat via a single window system of allotment. However, some parents felt the organisers needed to devote attention to details such as time management and allotment of space for parents to wait while their wards were taking the test. Synonyms allocation, assignment, issuing, issuance, awarding, grant, granting, administration, earmarking, designation, setting aside, budgeting
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