allotted

American

[uh-lot-id] / əˈlɒt ɪd /

adjective

assigned as a portion to some person or group or for some purpose.

The allotted time for this task is 25 minutes.
divided or distributed by share or portion; parceled out.

Many students have complained about the poorly allotted parking spaces at the university.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of allot.

Other Word Forms

unallotted adjective
well-allotted adjective

Etymology

Origin of allotted

allot ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

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Pheu Thai was allotted nine minister jobs, including agriculture, labour, education and social development.

From Barron's

No one makes as many good points in the allotted debate time as I can.

From Literature

"We wrote up this agreement about screen time with his school counsellors, what he had to get accomplished in order to get an allotted amount of screen time," Ping said.

From BBC

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

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