: assigned or distributed as a portion, share, or lot
finished in the allotted time
Silently, all the creatures filed to their allotted places.—
Brian Jacques
Brian JacquesThe teacher had exhausted his allotted sick leave after weakness in his vocal muscles made it impossible for him to teach.—Education Week
Education WeekExamples of allotted in a Sentence
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Two more allotted Opening Day games will be played on Friday following rain postponements.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
Sleep experts, for example, are concerned about the impact of forcing a human to wake up at an allotted time—and subsequently back to sleep—as opposed to allowing a person’s body clock to synchronize with natural daylight hours.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
The allotted time is 80 minutes but is expected to run much longer.
—USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
For those with allotted PTO, 38% of U.S. workers did not use their time off compared to 23% of U.K. workers.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 13 Dec. 2023
Several airlines, including Delta, Southwest, JetBlue and United, have issued advisories to passengers traveling to airports in Idalia’s path, allowing passengers to make changes for free within an allotted time.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
Several airlines, including Delta, Southwest, JetBlue and United, have issued advisories allowing passengers traveling to airports in Idalia’s path to make changes for free within an allotted time.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 29 Aug. 2023
The event participants followed each other’s fundraising progress through an online leaderboard, and encouraged their co-workers, family members and friends to help their teams raise money towards the homes by an allotted deadline.
—Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
The game will be blacked out locally on TNT since TNT has used all of its contractually allotted Suns TV selections for the 2022-23 season.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
Ben Morse, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
Sleep experts, for example, are concerned about the impact of forcing a human to wake up at an allotted time—and subsequently back to sleep—as opposed to allowing a person’s body clock to synchronize with natural daylight hours.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
The allotted time is 80 minutes but is expected to run much longer.
—USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
For those with allotted PTO, 38% of U.S. workers did not use their time off compared to 23% of U.K. workers.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 13 Dec. 2023
Several airlines, including Delta, Southwest, JetBlue and United, have issued advisories to passengers traveling to airports in Idalia’s path, allowing passengers to make changes for free within an allotted time.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
Several airlines, including Delta, Southwest, JetBlue and United, have issued advisories allowing passengers traveling to airports in Idalia’s path to make changes for free within an allotted time.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 29 Aug. 2023
The event participants followed each other’s fundraising progress through an online leaderboard, and encouraged their co-workers, family members and friends to help their teams raise money towards the homes by an allotted deadline.
—Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
The game will be blacked out locally on TNT since TNT has used all of its contractually allotted Suns TV selections for the 2022-23 season.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
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