allot

Speech parts

1. allot - Noun

2. allot - Verb

3. allot - Adverb

Meaning

To distribute by lot.

To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

deal portion grant distribute assign accord administer dispense shell out parcel out dish out deal out dole out mete out dole
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Antonyms

united center aline centre garner group
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Hypernyms

give deal lot distribute administer dispense

Hyponyms

give allow reserve deal portion apply

Phrases with the word

to allot

Derivatives

allotted allotting

Anagrams

atoll

Examples

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly. Paulo Coelho

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. Ulpian

grant a privilege Source: Internet

administer critical remarks to everyone present Source: Internet

dole out some money Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

allosuppressive allosyndesis allosyndetic allotagm allotaxonograph allotaxonometric