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All allotment synonyms

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noun allotment

  • allocation — An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
  • appropriation — An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose.
  • quota — the share or proportional part of a total that is required from, or is due or belongs to, a particular district, state, person, group, etc.
  • ration — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
  • allowance — An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
  • slice — a thin, flat piece cut from something: a slice of bread.
  • apportionment — the act of apportioning
  • chunk — Chunks of something are thick solid pieces of it.
  • grant — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
  • bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
  • share — a plowshare.
  • cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
  • part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
  • lot — lot (def 14).
  • measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • stint — to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
  • piece of the action — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
  • rake off — a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
  • vegetable patch — part of a garden used for growing vegetables
  • plot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • portion — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
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