Other forms: allotted, allotting, allots
To allot is to give out shares of something to each in turn. Allot the time, allotted seats, the allotted span.
The past participle does most of the work, and the allotted time is the phrase every chairman uses. An allotment in Britain is a plot of council land let for growing vegetables, from exactly this word.
1verballotTo give out shares of something to each in turn.
“Each speaker was allotted ten minutes to present their ideas.”
allot is a distributing.
Also accepted in games: apportion
Old French aloter is a plus lot, a share, from a Germanic word for a portion decided by lot.
Old French
aloter
Middle English
allotten
English, today
allot
From Middle English allotten, from Old French aloter (Modern French allotir). à + lot. by surface analysis, al- + lot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA