Meaning & use
allotment
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A share or portion of something that has been distributed or assigned, or, in British English, a small plot of public land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers.
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Each department received its allotment of the annual budget in January.
Every weekend, he tends the vegetables growing in his allotment near the railway line.
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The gardening sense is especially common in the United Kingdom, where local councils have offered allotments to residents since the nineteenth century.
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