MEANING
To assign or distribute a specified share, amount, place, or period.
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Words that belong together
- allot time
- allot a room
On the page
The organizer allotted each witness ten minutes.
She had been allotted the narrow room beyond the stairs.
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Word forms
- Base
- allot
- Past tense
- allotted
- Past participle
- allotted
- Present participle
- allotting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- allot
- Present continuous
- am/is/are allotting
- Present perfect
- have/has allotted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been allotting
- Past
- allotted
- Past continuous
- was/were allotting
- Past perfect
- had allotted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been allotting
- Future
- will allot
- Future continuous
- will be allotting
- Future perfect
- will have allotted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been allotting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: allot; allots; allotted; allotted; allotting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: allots.
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