allot

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al·lot /əˈlɒt $ əˈlɑːt/ verb (allotted, allotting) [transitiveT]

GIVEto use a particular amount of time for something, or give a particular share of money, space etc to someone or something 分配；拨出 SYN allocate

allot something to something/somebody

Try and allot two or three hours a day to revision.

每天设法抽出两三个小时复习。

Each school will be allotted twenty seats.

每个学校将分配到20个座位。

allot somebody something

Everyone who works for the company has been allotted ten shares.

该公司的每位员工都分到十股股票。

—allotted adjectiveadj [only before noun]

The department has already spent more than its allotted budget.

这个部门的开支已经超出了分配的预算。

Examples from the Corpus

allot• Their chances rose or fell depending upon the country to which they had been allotted.• Lincoln felt that McClellan had not allotted an adequate force to the defense of Washington.• Each, regardless of seniority or committee assignment, is allotted eighteen employees.• He has a room allotted in the social sciences department and special arrangements with the university domestic staff.• Susan was alone in the double sleeping-space which had been allotted to Michael and her for the night.• Once the tasks were allotted to the newly-recruited committee members, the meeting then turned its attention to the lawyers.• We will need to use all the clues at hand if we are to find the site in our allotted two dives.

allot somebody something• Each speaker was allotted 30 minutes.

From Longman Business Dictionary