as in allocating
to give as a share or portion
each speaker was allotted five minutes to present his or her opinion in the debate
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Recent Examples of allotting
The Legislature has barely funded guardianship services, allotting just enough in its budget the past two years to maintain a statewide hotline.
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Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2025
In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia, closed its public schools for five years, diverting tax monies to build a K-12 private academy for 1,400 white students and allotting their families tuition grants.
—Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
Since 2023, there has been a 9 percent increase in venture capital funds allotting at least $500 million to health care, according to Silicon Valley Bank—and since 2019, the number of AI deals in health care has grown at twice the rate of AI deals in the broader tech sector.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
The Rays agreed, allotting him a spot in their rotation that at the moment has one too many pitchers.
—Marc Topkin, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2025
Instead of allotting time for the family to avoid technology, parents can implement a blanket ban on technology in select parts of the house, like the bedroom or dining room.
—Grettel Suarez, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
And there are also more introspective strategies, such as allotting time for all 70,000 employees to step away and think about how their day-to-day activities trickle down to patient safety.
—Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
Mark Charles, a Navajo author, said that in 1862, Lincoln signed the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act, allotting 160 acres to any white person willing to homestead in the West for five years.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2024
Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2025
In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia, closed its public schools for five years, diverting tax monies to build a K-12 private academy for 1,400 white students and allotting their families tuition grants.
—Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
Since 2023, there has been a 9 percent increase in venture capital funds allotting at least $500 million to health care, according to Silicon Valley Bank—and since 2019, the number of AI deals in health care has grown at twice the rate of AI deals in the broader tech sector.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
The Rays agreed, allotting him a spot in their rotation that at the moment has one too many pitchers.
—Marc Topkin, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2025
Instead of allotting time for the family to avoid technology, parents can implement a blanket ban on technology in select parts of the house, like the bedroom or dining room.
—Grettel Suarez, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
And there are also more introspective strategies, such as allotting time for all 70,000 employees to step away and think about how their day-to-day activities trickle down to patient safety.
—Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
Mark Charles, a Navajo author, said that in 1862, Lincoln signed the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act, allotting 160 acres to any white person willing to homestead in the West for five years.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for allotting
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The commission would oversee allocating the money to schools and teachers at any city school that complies with requirements for doing the training well.—
Alan J. Borsuk,
jsonline.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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The law, passed in the state Legislature this year, allows families to apply for subsidies to attend private school, allocating up to $50 million a year for those tax credits.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
23 Sep. 2025
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In assigning him that seemingly perverse task, Scorsese tapped into the vague air of vacuity at the center of a star who’s always seemed present and absent all at once.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
26 Sep. 2025
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Still, the district pushed on with assigning Rupert to a different school.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Attorneys for the Justice Department argued that halting the reallocations could delay distributing the funds to other states DHS had identified as higher priority under its new approach.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The project was originally inspired by a brochure, In Case of Emergency or War, which the Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security began distributing to the public a few weeks before the invasion in early 2022.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Allotting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allotting. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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