allot
[verb]
Synonyms: assign, allocate, apportion, budget, designate, earmark, mete, set aside, share out

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Contrasted words: detain, hold, hold back, keep, retain, withhold, appropriate, arrogate, confiscate
Related Words: deal (out), dispense, distribute, dole (out), equip, fit out, furnish, accord, grant, vouchsafe, appoint, ordain, prescribe

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al‧lot /əˈlɒt $ əˈlɑːt/ verb (past tense and past participle allotted, present participle allotting) [transitive]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: aloter, from lot 'person's share']
to use a particular amount of time for something, or give a particular share of money, space etc to someone or something Synonym : allocate
allot 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.

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