allot

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al·lot | \ ə-ˈlät

allotted; allotting

Definition of allot

transitive verb

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

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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.

Recent Examples on the Web According to Sarmiento, Peru’s film fund for national and regional projects allot an average of $150,000 to $200,000 per project. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021 University officials want to allot $450 million to offer more scholarships that could help fully meet the financial needs of more North Texas students from low-income families. — Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021 The move allows hospitals to allot scarce resources, including intensive care units, to patients most likely to survive. — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021 This balancing act is key for an HSP, who must make a conscious effort to allot downtime to decompress and process. — Gillian Sagansky, Vogue, 2 July 2021 The move allows hospitals to allot scarce resources like intensive care unit rooms to patients most likely to survive. — Rebecca Boone, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2021 The Dead pioneered the art of direct-to-fan newsletters in the 1970s and mail-order ticketing in the 1980s through its Grateful Dead Ticketing Service, securing deals with promoters to allot as much as 50% of the tickets in a venue to Deadheads. — Jonathan Cohen, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021 In a late-night announcement Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Budget Committee had reached an agreement to allot $3.5 trillion for the spending package that would complete President Biden’s infrastructure plan. — Fox News, 16 July 2021 The connected structures create a conduit for sharing chemical signals and proteins, and fusion might help allot proteins more equally among mitochondria, Nunnari said. — Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2021

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