Crossword clues for allotment
allotment
- A share set aside for a specific purpose
- The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning
- Share
- Where people grow things for sharing
- Share everything the writer found in Bible
- Noah, Solomon and the rest take bit of tea in garden
- Lament about fate inside - plot for one missing green, green grass of home?
- Rented plot for gardening
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allotment \Al*lot"ment\, n. [Cf. OF. alotement, F. allotement.]
The act of allotting; assignment.
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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.
The alloments of God and nature.
--L'Estrange.A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs.
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(law) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.
Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]
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.
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) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.
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 state" [syn: apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation]
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 carrier seats or hotel rooms held by a travel organizer
- Allotment (Dawes Act), an area of land held by the US Government for the benefit of an individual Native American, under the Dawes Act of 1887
- Sortition or allotment, a method of selection by lottery
- The Allotment, a 1988 book by Colin Ward
An allotment garden (British English), often called simply an allotment, or a community garden (North America) is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of land into a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individuals or families. Such parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other community garden types where the entire area is tended collectively by a group of people. In countries that do not use the term allotment (garden), a community garden can refer to individual small garden plots as well as to a single, large piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people. The term victory garden is also still sometimes used, especially when a community garden dates back to World War II or I.
The individual size of a parcel typically suits the needs of a family, and often the plots include a shed for tools and shelter, and sometimes a hut for seasonal or weekend accommodation. The individual gardeners are usually organised in an allotment association, which leases or is granted the land from an owner who may be a public, private or ecclesiastical entity, and who usually stipulates that it be only used for gardening (i.e. growing vegetables, fruits and flowers), but not for permanent residential purposes (this is usually also required by zoning laws). The gardeners have to pay a small membership fee to the association, and have to abide by the corresponding constitution and by-laws. However, the membership entitles them to certain democratic rights.
Allotments in the tourism industry are used to designate a certain block of pre-negotiated carrier seats or hotel rooms which have been bought out and held by a travel organizer with a huge buying power like a wholesaler, tour operator or hotel consolidator, and more rarely by a retail travel agent.
Allotments can be purchased for a specific period of time such as a whole season, part of a season or for any single dates and then resold to travel partners and final customers around the globe. A couple of days prior to carrier departure/hotel check-in any unsold seats/rooms may be released back to the supplier if such an agreement exists between the two parties. An allotment release back period is also negotiated as part of the allotment contract (e.g. four days prior to check-in/departure).
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.