allotted

Definition of allottednext
past tense of allot

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of allotted For example, the original plan by the department’s consultant assumed that the park would have access to a sewer main and allotted about $76,000 for a routine sewer connection. Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026 The retailer expanded the space allotted for Asian food products by about 75% and beefed up offerings of noodles and snacks in the category after sales rose more than 25% in the last year. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026 Aggressive plants can outcompete other plants for resources and outgrow the space allotted to them. Dr. Lauren Kurtz, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026 For a long time, the prime real estate for podcast discovery was Apple’s iTunes, where new podcasts were allotted their own row for a week. Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Experts say the vast majority of nonprofits cap the amount of vacation time an employee can accrue, most often to one-and-a-half times the vacation hours allotted to them for a single year. Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026 There were cheers and boos as more than 60 speakers took the stand, each having three minutes allotted at the podium. CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026 The House Administration Committee was allotted $10 billion in the House’s budget resolution for election law reforms, as the committee has oversight authority of federal elections. Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 27 July 2026 Instead, an equipment staffer lugged a bag of balls into a side training room and was allotted an hour to massage the footballs to the preferred specifications. Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for allotted
Verb
  • Siniaková and Patten, along with a clutch of other top doubles teams, had to come through qualifying, because main-draw entries were allocated by combined singles ranking.
    James Hansen, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The money was allocated from Supervisor Janet Nguyen's discretionary funds.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The rule requires election officials to submit each mail voter’s name and address to a new USPS portal, along with unique Intelligent Mail barcodes assigned to the envelopes used to send and return that voter’s ballot.
    Luke Fountain, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Such was the case for David Dastmalchian, who was filming 2021’s The Suicide Squad in Panama when the CDS assigned him a new feline companion.
    Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • This story was originally published by InvestigateWest and distributed through a partnership with the Associated Press.
    Rachel Spacek, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
  • History shows that trade imbalances of this scale almost always end painfully—and that the pain of the adjustment is not distributed evenly.
    MICHAEL PETTIS, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026

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“Allotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allotted. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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