allot
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
allot/əˈlɒt/
▶verb (allots, allotting, allotted) give or apportion (something) to someone.
– derivatives
allottee noun.
allottee noun.
– origin C15: from OFr. aloter, from a- (from L. ad ‘to’) + loter ‘divide into lots’.
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