allot


allot
I verb addicere, administer, adsignare, allocate, appoint, apportion, assign, deal, delimit, demarcate, designate, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribuere, distribute, divide, dole, earmark, indicate, measure, mete, mete out, parcel out, partition, portion out, prorate, ration, share, specify II index allocate, apportion, attorn, bear (yield), bestow, classify, commit (entrust), contribute (supply), delegate, delimit, demarcate, devise (give), devote, disburse (distribute), dispense, distribute, divide (distribute), dole, endow, endue, expend (disburse), fund, give (grant), leave (give), marshal, mete, parcel, partition, pigeonhole, present (make a gift), prorate, sort, split

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allot
v.
To apportion; to distribute portions of something to several individuals; to allocate something to someone.

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