lotted

verb

past tense of lot
as in allotted
to give as a share or portion everyone is lotted opportunities in life, and it's their responsibility to take them

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  1. allotted
  2. assigned
  3. allocated
  4. distributed
Verb
  • 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
  • The press corps aren’t allotted much space in the White House.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
Definition of allotted
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  • He was assigned to Tan Son Nhut Air Base near Saigon, a focal point for the military’s buildup in South Vietnam.
    — Nicole Borman, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
  • The Fed chairman has assigned task forces to review different topics including the central bank’s approach to inflation.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 29 July 2026
Definition of assigned
Verb
  • The government allocated $10 million to develop the site into a tourist attraction.
    — Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
  • The increase is consequential because the brands studied allocated more than 63 percent of their advertising budgets to search and social.
    — Sharon Edelson, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of allocated
Verb
  • Moreover, the long incubation period for infection means that the crop responsible would have been distributed weeks ago.
    — Annika Kim Constantino,Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 24 July 2026
  • The codes for all containers worldwide are distributed by the Bureau International des Containers (BIC).
    — Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
Definition of distributed
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