allotment
noun
al·lot·ment
ə-ˈlät-mənt 
1
: the act of allotting something : apportionment
The allotment of a full page in the newspaper to each candidate is fair.
2
: something that is allotted
an allotment of time
especially, chiefly British
: a plot of land let to an individual for cultivation
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While average payments for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits are not available, the maximum allotment will increase from $943 a month to $967.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The city instead gets most of its water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which draws water from the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the Metropolitan Water District, which receives a large allotment from the Colorado River and Delta.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
So, then, what, really, was the fuss? Cheating, even in the abstract, touches a nerve like no other form of transgression, laying bare a fundamental insecurity about relationships which, as celebrities demonstrate, no allotment of money, talent, or good looks can foreclose.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Several nursing assistants at the Holyoke veterans home exceeded their allotments because of long-lasting COVID symptoms, post-traumatic stress, and, in Ragoonanan’s case, a brain aneurysm.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 1 Oct. 2024
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The city instead gets most of its water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which draws water from the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the Metropolitan Water District, which receives a large allotment from the Colorado River and Delta.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
So, then, what, really, was the fuss? Cheating, even in the abstract, touches a nerve like no other form of transgression, laying bare a fundamental insecurity about relationships which, as celebrities demonstrate, no allotment of money, talent, or good looks can foreclose.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Several nursing assistants at the Holyoke veterans home exceeded their allotments because of long-lasting COVID symptoms, post-traumatic stress, and, in Ragoonanan’s case, a brain aneurysm.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Allotment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allotment. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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allotment
noun
al·lot·ment
ə-ˈlät-mənt
1
: the act of allotting
2
: something allotted
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