allotted; allotting
1
: to assign as a share or portion
allot 10 minutes for the speech
2
: to distribute by or as if by lot
allot seats to the press
allotter
noun
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Examples of allot in a Sentence
Each speaker will be allotted 15 minutes.
The newspaper will allot a full page to each of the three mayoral candidates.
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That would have been a significant increase over the $1 million legislators had previously allotted to fund a statewide hotline that hundreds of people have consulted on behalf of friends or family.
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Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 30 Apr. 2024
Some church members cautioned him against speaking out in support of migrants or allotting more church resources to them.
—Matt Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
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Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 30 Apr. 2024
Some church members cautioned him against speaking out in support of migrants or allotting more church resources to them.
—Matt Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
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allot
verb
al·lot
ə-ˈlät 
allotted; allotting
: to assign as a share or portion
allot 10 minutes for the speech
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