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allotment (iou)



allotment noun. M16.
[from ALLOT + -MENT.]
a. A share or portion of land assigned to a particular person or appropriated to a special purpose; spec. a small portion of usu. public land let out for cultivation. M16.
attrib.: Dickens Certain allotment-gardens by the road-side.
b. gen. A share allotted to someone. E17.
W. Blackstone The elder sons..migrate from their father with a certain allotment of cattle.
The action of allotting or assigning as a share; apportionment. L16.
R. Gordon Long voyages and young wives don't mix. You leave the allotment of your pay, [etc.].
One's lot in life. L17.
Henry Fielding No man is born into the world without his particular allotment.
allotmen'teer noun a person who holds or rents an allotment of land E20.