allotmentn.
/əˈlɒtm(ə)nt/, U.S. /əˈlɑtm(ə)nt/ 1. A share, portion, or amount of something that has been allotted to someone.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun]
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1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xx In this case it behoueth eche of them to holde them to theyr chaunce & alotment.
?1538 Inst. Lawes Eng. sig. C.viiv Theldest syster to chuse which ball she wyl, or to put her hand in to the bonet & to take a scroull, & to holde her to her chaunce and allotment.
a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1679) viii. 282 A certain allotment from the Spoils acquired in wars, did God challenge to himself, as fitting recompences due for his..care over them.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 83 The elder sons..migrate from their father with a certain allotment of cattle.
1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. lxxiv. 204 Sir George acceded; and 100 English guineas was the weekly allotment.
1813 T. Jefferson Let. 21 June in Writings (1903) 268 I should not think one hundred gunboats..an overproportioned allotment to the Chesapeake country.
a1865 T. Garland Memorials, Literary & Relig. (1868) xiv. 271 Their only object is to secure a good allotment of shares, to be jobbed in the market as soon as the gullibility of the public brings them to a premium.
1896 Argosy Mar. 519/2 And now comes an added allotment of pleasure into a life already teeming with them.
1936 S. J. Holmes Human Genetics & its Social Import iv. 44 Sex determination would..appear to be settled at the time of fertilization, when the individual receives his or her allotment of chromosomes.
1973 Times 15 Oct. 17/3 There [sc. Northern Ireland], an allotment of 12 seats at Westminster is based upon electoral quotas wildly out of kilter with the quotas for England, Scotland, and Wales.
2006 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 11 May c8 (advt.) Town and Country..has received an allotment of special off lease vehicles at substantial savings.
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a. A share or portion of land assigned to a person, or appropriated for a particular purpose; a plot.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > allotted land
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > cottage allotment
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > allotment
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1560 in Acts Privy Council Irel. (1897) 84 You shall directe owte preceptes to the constables of every barony within your allotmentes.
1635 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1818) 2nd Ser. VII. 136 None shall sell their houses or allotments to any new comers.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland vi. 15 The Finlanders..have a certain division or allotment called Lappio.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vii. Observ. 163 A vineyard, and an allotment for olives and herbs.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 45 Large districts or parcels of land were..dealt out again in smaller parcels or allotments to the inferior officers.
1816 Laws State of Delaware lxxxii. 147 The..freeholders..shall..divide the same real estate of the intestate..into as many portions or allotments as they may deem [etc.].
1862 Spec. Rep. Commissioners Inclosure Comm. 1 in Rep. from Commissioners III. An allotment for exercise and recreation is not considered necessary for the small agricultural population, besides that the country is open down for many miles around.
1911 J. A. Shelhamer Missionary Tour around World xxxiii. 292 [The missionaries] were not allowed to live where they chose,..but were given an allotment in Nagasaki..and were compelled to remain there.
1982 Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Grazing Managem. Ashley Creek (U.S. Dept. of Interior) 5 A rangeland management program will be..developed by the Bureau..for 65 livestock grazing allotments..within the planning area.
2000 Nelson Mail (Nexis) 5 Oct. 3 Consent was sought to build houses on two of the new allotments.
b. Originally British. A small plot of land rented, typically from a local authority, by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers or for keeping small livestock, such as hens and rabbits.Allotments are usually associated with urban locations, although the earliest examples relate to the letting of land to agricultural labourers as a measure to relieve their poverty after land enclosure (cf. allotment system n. at Compounds 2). Each allotment should not exceed a quarter of an acre and produce must be solely for the consumption of the allotment holder, as specified in the Allotments Act of 1922. Allotments became especially popular in Great Britain during the world wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45, as a means of alleviating food shortages.
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1801 Ann. Agric. 37 36 Such allotments, I represented as likely to excite their gratitude, to promote their industry, to foster their domestic habits, [etc.].
1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. iii. 50 On the enclosure of Great and Little Chesterford, the cottagers that had cow-gates on the commons, had allotments of land, which they now cultivate in wheat, potatoes, etc.
1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 88 The most convenient mode of giving [country labourers] gardens is to divide a field near the village into small allotments.
1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 53 Allotments for shoemakers to dig, after ten hours of leather-stitching per diem.
1917 Times 14 Aug. 3/3 Holders of municipal allotments..claim for loss by malicious damage, the hearts of 700 cabbages having been cut out.
1944 Amer. Speech 19 294 In Britain the playing of tennis and golf has been succeeded by the weekend pastime of working in one's ‘allotment’, which is a kind of ‘Victory Garden’.
1994 Daily Mail (Nexis) 12 Oct. 3 We can all hear the sound of chickens and cockerels kept on the allotment.
2008 Independent 9 Aug. (Mag.) 53/2 Everything you hope to see on an allotment: gladioli, dahlias.., leeks like truncheons, [etc.].
c. U.S. Now chiefly historical. A piece of land divided by the U.S. government from communally-held North American Indian tribal lands and made over as private property to an individual North American Indian.The division of tribal lands by the U.S. government was sanctioned in the General Allotment Act (also known as the Dawes Act or Dawes Severalty Act) of 1887 and several amended and successor acts; these acts attempted to culturally assimilate North American Indians by introducing private property laws. This policy was abolished in 1934 with the introduction of the Indian Reorganization Act.
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1860 Rep. Commissioner Indian Affairs 1859 (U.S.) 18 The adoption by several of the northern tribes of Indians, of the plan of allotments to them in severalty of a portion of their tribal country, has induced this office to suggest to the superintendent.., that the fact be communicated to the Indians within his district with a view to the consummation of a similar policy among them.
1886 Nation 23 Dec. 514/2 The rights and privileges of citizenship are conferred upon every Indian..to whom allotments have been made.
1896 Proc. 13th Ann. Meeting Lake Mohonk Conf. 112 Indian agents [should] be dispensed with wherever possible, especially where the Indians have been settled on their own allotments.
1917 Case & Comment Feb. 745/1 Under this ruling, the children of a white man and an Indian woman are entitled to allotments.
1988 H. T. Hoover Yankton Sioux iv. 55 The General Allotment Act of 1887 had provided the patents (certificates of ownership) to Indian allotments to be held in trust by federal authorities for 25 years.
2007 D. T. Mitchell Architect of Justice iii. 67 Once all individual Indians residing on a reservation received allotments, the remainder of tribal land was declared surplus and opened to non-Indian purchase.
3.
a. The action or an act of allotting something or assigning as a share; apportionment.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > assigning or allotting
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?1571 Advt. True Subiect to Queene in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1936) 51 296 This Allottment and Lymitation in the respect of the Ambiguities of the tytles, referr ouer to God.
1574 in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 11 That this and the other Companies should, after the rateable and proportionable allotment, provide their shares thereof.
1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens 111 (heading) The Division and Allotment of King's Sedgmore, to the several Mannours and Freeholders thereunto adjoyning.
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. Pref. p. vi Colonies went abroad without any regard to their original place of allotment.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. iii. 10 To each they made Allotment equal of nine sable bulls.
1831 Sc. Jurist 3 243/1 The proceedings in the said process have advanced so far, that there is an actual allotment of the portions destined for each of the proprietors.
1861 Amer. Law Reg. 10 45 She must show that the terms..of the will have been complied with in the valuation, division, and allotment of the estate.
1882 Globe 24 July 8/3 10s. per share payable on Application; 10s. per share on Allotment.
1936 Decisions Comptroller Gen. U.S. 15 1027 Each of the projects..is financed by an allotment made out of a specific sum allocated by the President for such project.
2002 B. T. Basavanthappa Fund. Nursing (2004) xxii. 574/1 The net result is that a hospital tries to cut on the expenditure involved in waste disposal by meagre allotment of resources.
b. A document or paper stating the terms on which something has been allotted.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [noun] > deed of allotment
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1772 S. Denne & W. Shrubsole Hist. Rochester 95 The only allotment to be met with is to the dean and one prebendary.
1852 Documents of Assembly State of N.Y. 3 59 Mr. Mather..read the allotment over to the board.
1896 Sale of Bonds (U.S. Senate Comm. on Finance) 331 Mr. Graves would have signed his allotment in good faith and maintained the same throughout the entire transaction.
1903 N. H. Daniels Descendants of H. Travers 28 Allotment dated the 5th of July, in the year of His Majesty's reign, Anno Dom., 1717.
1994 J. A. Simpson River & Lake Boundaries (2005) i. 21 The lower court..declared that the Indian titles could not be impaired by state legislation and that the bank only owned what the allotment stated.
4. What is assigned to a person by God, fate, or a similar agency; a person's luck, destiny, or fortune; one's lot (lot n. 6a). Also: the action or an act by such an agency of deciding or assigning a person's fate.
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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > personal destiny or one's lot
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1586 S. Bredwell Detection E. Glouers Hereticall Confection ii. 27 Let vs first trie out the boundes..of the naturall man, by the line of Gods word, that so the dwelling of the righteous maie enioy the iust space of his allotment.
1628 M. Mainwaring Vienna 110 Two Ianizaries that were of his Guard, whose allotment was that day amongst many others to attend.
1674 Govt. Tongue x. §6. 179 Our behavior towards God, whose allotments we dispute.
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild ii. xiii, in Misc. III. 181 No Man is born into the World without his particular Allotment.
1781 W. Cowper Let. 17 Dec. (1979) I. 559 It is th' allotment of the skies, The Hand of the Supremely Wise.
1828 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 1 440 The stinted allotments of earthly life are as a mockery to him.
1899 R. S. MacArthur Celestial Lamp vii. 124 No arbitrary allotment of God assigns men to heaven or hell.
1910 Rudder 23 49 Thus the Spanish galleon's captain..by lack of skill or the hard allotment of Fate might find the fangs of this bank seizing his ship's forefoot.
2005 W. Hansen Classical Mythol. i. 33 Each human being has a personal fate, an individual allotment in life, the general course that his or her life will inevitably take.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > load or lot of specific size or abundance
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods carried or sold in specific unit
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1703 London Gaz. 3882/4 Inventories of the Ships, and Allotments of the Goods may be seen at the said Hall.
1705 London Gaz. mmmmcxxxv/3 Printed Copies of the Allotments of the said Goods.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Allotting, or Allotment of Goods,..is when a Ship's Cargo is divided into several Parts, to be bought by divers Persons.
1819 F. M. Van Heythuysen Ess. upon Marine Evid. Gloss. 203 Allotting, or Allotment of Goods,..a ship's barge is divided into several parts bought by different persons whose names are written in as many pieces of paper.
6. Originally British. In the Navy: the payment of part of a seaman's wages to a nominated person, typically a spouse or family member; a payment of this type. In later use also extended to people serving in the merchant navy and the other armed forces. Also (more fully allotment note): a document authorizing such a payment.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > sailor's pay > types of
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1766 D. Pickering Statutes at Large XXII. 212 Such allotment shall be made by any such inferior officer or seaman, of any such part of his wages or pay, to his wife, father, or mother.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 32 Allotment, a part of the pay apportioned monthly to the wives, children, mothers, or destitute fathers of the warrant and petty officers, seamen, and marines.
1883 United Service Sept. 267 There's no Mary on this ship's books as I knows of, though I remember an allotment made out to a person of that name.
1894 Act 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60 §141 (2) The seaman may require that a stipulation be inserted in the agreement for the allotment by means of an allotment note, of any part (not exceeding one half) of his wages in favour either of a near relative or of a savings bank.
1917 H. W. Waldon Company Admin. (ed. 3) xii. 88 On transfer, a soldier's descriptive list should show his allotment and to what time collection of allotment has been made from his pay.
1953 ‘R. Gordon’ Doctor at Sea vi. 82 Long voyages and young wives don't mix. You leave the allotment of your pay and if you don't get a letter at every port you wonder what's up.
2006 M. E. Sullivan Mil. Divorce Handbk. 280 The Army has no legal authority to deduct money from a soldier's pay without his consent unless garnishment or involuntary allotment has been ordered by a civilian court.
Phrases
letter of allotment = allotment letter n. at Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > allotment letter
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1828 Times 22 Nov. 1/1 The Subscribers are informed that their Shares became due on Saturday last, and that the letters of allotment are declared null and void after Saturday.
1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 499/1 You don't mean to say that you were such an inconceivable ass as to pay up your letter of allotment?
1999 J. O. E. Clark Internat. Dict. Banking & Finance 207 A letter of allotment may be used as proof of ownership.
Compounds
C1. General attributive and objective (in sense 2b).
allotment gardener n.
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1837 Farmer's Mag. 421/1 Sir Edward and Lady Kerrison gave their annual dinner..to between five and six hundred of their cottage tenantry, allotment gardeners.., and school children.
1921 E. L. Collis et al. Health Industr. Worker v. 103 A firm on investigation found that the group of best time-keepers included a large proportion of allotment gardeners.
2009 Sun (Nexis) 3 Jan. 53 Allotment gardeners will be relieved to hear mildew-resistant onions are on their way by next year.
allotment gardening n.
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1849 Cottage Gardener 1 9/1 (heading) Cottage and Allotment Gardening.
1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being (1945) 113 Allotment gardening has become popular.
2011 Times (Nexis) 1 Feb. 26 New Urban Farmer..takes you ‘from plot to plate’ with a guide to allotment gardening that combines seasonal journal, gardening manual and recipe book.
allotment holder n.
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1831 Rep. Condition Poor Saffron Walden 8 The allotment holders are..brought completely under the notice of their Neighbours; and every facility has been afforded to..occupiers by commending their industrious exertions.
1920 Evening Times (Glasgow) 1 Oct. 4 Allotment holders..have had fine weather for the ingathering of their crop.
2006 Independent (Nexis) 3 July 15 East London allotment holders welcomed visitors to their plots with guided tours and a taste of their city-grown produce.
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allotment garden n. = sense 2b.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > cottage allotment
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1837 Essex Standard 23 June 3/1 The petition was accompanied by a recommendation, signed by a number of the occupiers of the Allotment Gardens, from one of whom the greens were stolen.
1869 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 3) ii. viii. 222 The granting of allotment gardens would do much for the labourers.
1922 J. Eades Mod. Ideas & Methods for School Teachers & Students in Training i. 77 If an allotment garden is attached to the school, some portion of the time may be spent there.
2004 V. Burgin Remembered Film iv. 69 The paved streets gave way to dirt paths through ruined allotment gardens.
allotment letter n. (originally) a contractual letter confirming an application for shares in a company has been successful; (now) a temporary certificate of share ownership, in receipt of payment for shares allocated from a new issue.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > allotment letter
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letter of allotment1828
1825 Morning Chron. 18 Oct. The allotment of Shares will take place on the 20th inst. Those persons who do not receive allotment letters are requested to consider it impossible for the Directors..to comply with their request.
1909 A. E. Davies Money, Stock & Share Markets xii. 98 Once the allotment letter has been posted it is impossible for the applicant to withdraw his application.
2001 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 6 May (Business section) 1 Shareholders must say if they are taking up their rights and send the payment, receiving in return an allotment letter and then a share certificate.
allotment system n. (a) originally British a system under which land is rented out to individuals for growing vegetables or flowers or for keeping small livestock (see sense 2b); (b) U.S. (now historical) a system of dividing communally-held North American Indian tribal lands (see sense 2c).
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > field systems
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1801 Ann. Agric. 37 47 I shall only add a caution against indulging expectations which the allotment system is not calculated to answer.
1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 90 The allotment system, when limited to the giving a labourer a small plot of garden-ground, presents many advantages.
1886 J. Cook Vital Orthodoxy 186 The Senate promptly negatived a motion to strike out a clause in Senator Dawes's bill, which gives the Indians who take land under the allotment system..the privileges of citizenship.
1939 Times 23 Dec. 4/ The allotment system arose out of the fact that so few houses in the more densely populated areas had garden space.
1997 N. S. Momaday Man made of Words i. 70 In a two-year period following the inception of the allotment system, Indian lands were reduced by twenty million acres.
2009 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 May There are ever-longer waiting lists for community plots on both sides of the pond, but England's allotment system has stronger and deeper cultural roots, thanks to long-standing government support.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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