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Assigned portion
Answer for the clue "Assigned portion ", 9 letters:
allotment
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Allotment may refer to: Allotment (finance) , a method by which a company allocates over-subscribed shares Allotment (gardening) , an area of land rented out for non-commercial gardening or farming Allotment (travel industry) , a block of pre-negotiated ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All over the allotments identical columns of light were rising. ▪ Commoners would receive an allotment of land. ▪ Concern for this issue stems from a range of different interests, from allotments to aesthetics. ▪ I like to go ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a share set aside for a specific purpose [syn: allocation ] the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of allotting; assignment. 2 That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. 3 (context legal English) ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "action of allotting," from Middle French allotement , from Old French aloter (see allot ). Or else a native formation from allot + -ment . Meaning "portion assigned to someone or some purpose" is from 1670s.
Usage examples of allotment.
But after this allotment of rank and function, all act consonant with the will of the gods keeps the sequence and is included under the providential government, for the Reason-Principle of providence is god-serving.
Remember when he used to take me to the allotment from when I was small.
Now there would be no more lessons until her next allotment was due, in the spring.
Eric sometimes beat the walls with his fists or shrieked when he was denied a game or treat, and since he wasted his own allotment, his mother often had to refuse his requests for part of hers.
She had already spent much of her allotment on a keyboard with letters and numbers to attach to her room screen.
But if she waited for Celia to take her allotment away, she would once again look like a fool.
Instead, she had cut the allotment in half, saying that it was now up to Iris which lessons she chose and that she was free to pay for others.
Now, a lock-up garage is a wonderful thing, almost as wonderful in its way as an allotment shed.
And as with an allotment shed, or indeed a garden shed, there is always a half-bag of gone-solid cement that you always fall over when you come in.
Old Pete, who today actually smelt of old peat, for he had been turning his allotment beds.
Peter, it might prove necessary that I visit you in the near future with regards to certain herbs that you grow upon your allotment patch.
Time Machine out of a van and dragging it into an allotment shed always a struggle?
Norman left his allotment shed, returned to his van, shouted abuse at it and drove homeward.
Old Pete to the allotment to witness it, to prove to himself that it had been true.
Under the terms of the Mutual Use Treaty, which had been hammered out during that momentary thaw in relations between England and the Celtic Federation, every settler on Mars had received an Allotment of acreage for private terraforming.