: assigned or distributed as a portion, share, or lot
finished in the allotted time
Silently, all the creatures filed to their allotted places.—
Brian Jacques
Brian JacquesThe teacher had exhausted his allotted sick leave after weakness in his vocal muscles made it impossible for him to teach.—Education Week
Education WeekExamples of allotted in a Sentence
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Even the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which first found that Chiles’s score revision was outside an allotted window, has objected to the way the International Gymnastics Federation (known as FIG) has handled the original re-scoring and resulting change to the bronze winner.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2024
When a client device initiates a connection but doesn’t successfully authenticate itself within an allotted time (120 seconds by default), vulnerable OpenSSH systems call what’s known as a SIGALRM handler asynchronously.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 2 July 2024
The other two then have to try to complete a block puzzle in an allotted time.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
The allotted time is 60 minutes but is expected to run longer.
—USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
Two more allotted Opening Day games will be played on Friday following rain postponements.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
Sleep experts, for example, are concerned about the impact of forcing a human to wake up at an allotted time—and subsequently back to sleep—as opposed to allowing a person’s body clock to synchronize with natural daylight hours.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
The allotted time is 80 minutes but is expected to run much longer.
—USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
For those with allotted PTO, 38% of U.S. workers did not use their time off compared to 23% of U.K. workers.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 13 Dec. 2023
Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2024
When a client device initiates a connection but doesn’t successfully authenticate itself within an allotted time (120 seconds by default), vulnerable OpenSSH systems call what’s known as a SIGALRM handler asynchronously.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 2 July 2024
The other two then have to try to complete a block puzzle in an allotted time.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
The allotted time is 60 minutes but is expected to run longer.
—USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
Two more allotted Opening Day games will be played on Friday following rain postponements.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
Sleep experts, for example, are concerned about the impact of forcing a human to wake up at an allotted time—and subsequently back to sleep—as opposed to allowing a person’s body clock to synchronize with natural daylight hours.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
The allotted time is 80 minutes but is expected to run much longer.
—USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
For those with allotted PTO, 38% of U.S. workers did not use their time off compared to 23% of U.K. workers.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 13 Dec. 2023
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“Allotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allotted. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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