allotment

n. share, portion; lot in life;(British) small piece of land; garden

Allotment may refer to:Allotment (gardening), in the United Kingdom, a small area of land, let out at a nominal yearly rent by local government or independent allotment associations, for individuals to grow their own foodAllotment (financial), a method of distributing securities to investors when an issue has been oversubscribed.Sortition, also known as allotment, is a method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag. In Athenian democracy, allotment was the principle form of democratic choice with most magistrates and their large juries chosen this way; the Athenians considered allotment to be more democratic than elections.Dawes General Allotment Act, a United States legislation of 1887 authorizing the President to survey Indian tribal land and divide the arable area into allotments for the individual Indian.Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, United States legislation of 1935 allowing the government to pay farmers to reduce productionThe Allotment, a 1988 book by Colin Ward
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Noun
1. a share set aside for a specific purpose
(synonym) allocation
(hypernym) share, portion, part, percentage
(hyponym) reallocation
2. 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"
(synonym) apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation
(hypernym) distribution
(hyponym) grant, subsidization, subsidisation
(derivation) distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out

(n.)
The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.
  

(n.)
The act of allotting; assignment.
  

(n.)
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.
  

Entry of a designated frequency channel in an agreed plan, adopted by a component Conference, for use by one or more administrations for a (terrestrial or space) radiocommunication service in one or more identified countries or geographical areas and under specified conditions. [NTIA ]