ALLOTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allotment mean? 

• ALLOTMENT (noun)
  The noun ALLOTMENT has 2 senses:

1. a share set aside for a specific purpose

2. the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan

  Familiarity information: ALLOTMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLOTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A share set aside for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

allocation; allotment

Hypernyms ("allotment" is a kind of...):

part; percentage; portion; share (assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "allotment"):

reallocation (a share that has been allocated again)

quota (a proportional share assigned to each participant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

allocation; allotment; apportioning; apportionment; assignation; parceling; parcelling

Context example:

the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state

Hypernyms ("allotment" is a kind of...):

distribution (the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "allotment"):

grant; subsidisation; subsidization (the act of providing a subsidy)

reallocation; reallotment; reapportionment (a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results))

deal (the act of apportioning or distributing something)

rationing (the act of rationing)

parcel; portion; share (the allotment of some amount by dividing something)

Derivation:

allot (administer or bestow, as in small portions)

 Context examples 

My brother, Harry Pinner, is promoter, and joins the board after allotment as managing director.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)