allotted

adjective

al·​lot·​ted ə-ˈlä-təd How to pronounce allotted (audio)
: 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
The teacher had exhausted his allotted sick leave after weakness in his vocal muscles made it impossible for him to teach.Education Week

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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

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of allot

First Known Use

1567, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of allotted was in 1567

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“Allotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allotted. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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