allotted
Americanadjective
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assigned as a portion to some person or group or for some purpose.
The allotted time for this task is 25 minutes.
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divided or distributed by share or portion; parceled out.
Many students have complained about the poorly allotted parking spaces at the university.
verb
Other Word Forms
- unallotted adjective
- well-allotted adjective
Etymology
Origin of allotted
Example Sentences
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Wolf Alice, winning best group, used their allotted stage time to make a plea for the "pubs, clubs and grassroots venues where we quite literally learned to play our instruments and write our songs".
From BBC
Reiner, the third of Rob Reiner's four children, is now receiving the kind of publicly funded legal representation allotted to defendants who cannot pay their own fees.
From BBC
Under gargantuan pressure, she clinched the sole Olympic women’s figure skating berth allotted to Russia to compete as an Individual Neutral Athlete.
"Without a robust and urgent roadmap, there is a real risk this inquiry will not be able to fulfil its statutory objectives in the allotted time," she warned.
From BBC
In the lab, each person attempted to solve a series of brain teaser puzzles, with three minutes allotted per puzzle.
From Science Daily
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