allot
verb (used with object)
to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion.
was allotting
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past progressiveof allot.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Therefore to maintain its buying power in the gold market the RFC was allotting itself another $25,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Page 214—alloting amended to allotting—"... when God was allotting their shares ..."
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by William Ralston Shedden Ralston
Thus it is said that when God was allotting their shares to the rivers, the Desna did not come in time, and so failed to obtain precedence over the Dnieper.
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by William Ralston Shedden Ralston
