allotted

verb

Definition of allottednext
past tense of allot
as in allocated
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 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
  1. allocated
  2. assigned
  3. distributed
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  • Building a Better California has also allocated a large chunk of its massive war chest to reserve $87 million worth of advertising time ahead of the November election to sway public opinion, the New York Times reported last month.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Yet the ones that are less successful tend to be more allocated.
    — Nir Bashan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of allocated
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  • Judge Michael Chitty was then assigned to consider the motion from Anthony's attorneys asking for a retrial in killing of Austin Metcalf.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The league has had players who were assigned female at birth and later came out as transgender or nonbinary.
    — S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of assigned
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  • The group has constructed more than 820 all-terrain wheelchairs; fabricated 900 orthotics and prosthetics; and distributed more than 740 hearing aids.
    — Allie Torgan, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The decline in applications was unevenly distributed across institutions, with data suggesting a larger cushion for the most competitive universities than for those with a lower global profile.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of distributed

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“Allotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/allotted. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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