allotment
Your designated slice
An allotment is a share or portion distributed from a larger whole: Each department received its allotment of the budget.
The word implies systematic division according to plan or entitlement.
In British usage, an allotment is also a small plot of public land rented to individuals for growing vegetables or flowers—a use that dates to 19th-century urban planning.
Storyline or land parcel
- vegetablesEdible plants, not fruits
- shedCast off naturally
- compostDecayed organic fertilizer
- greenhouseClimate-controlled plant enclosure
seedlings · beds · harvest · spade · wheelbarrow · watering · weeding · organic
Allocation across recipients
- apportionmentDivision into shares
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
quota · share · portion · dispensation · earmarking · divvying · parceling · provision
Increasing or enlarging
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- tillingCultivating soil for crops
- harvestingGathering mature crops
hoeing · weeding · pruning · fertilizing · composting · mulching · tending · irrigation
Fixed allotted amount
- couponCertificate for reduced price
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
shortage · distribution · limitation · restriction · subsistence · provisioning · control · conservation
plot
Storyline or land parcel
- vegetablesEdible plants, not fruits
- shedCast off naturally
- compostDecayed organic fertilizer
greenhouse · seedlings · beds · harvest · spade · wheelbarrow · watering · weeding · organic · horticulture
distribution
Allocation across recipients
- apportionmentDivision into shares
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
rationing · quota · share · portion · dispensation · earmarking · divvying · parceling · provision · meting
growing
Increasing or enlarging
harvesting · hoeing · weeding · pruning · fertilizing · composting · mulching · tending · irrigation · propagation
ration
Fixed allotted amount
- couponCertificate for reduced price
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
austerity · shortage · distribution · limitation · restriction · subsistence · provisioning · control · conservation · economy
- land reformland reform, agrarian reform, land redistribution, land distribution, land seizures
- gardensflower garden, flowerbeds, Chinese garden, rose garden, herb garden
- budgetingbudget, budgets, budget app, budget template, budget allocation
- English Countrysidecottages, village green, village fete, farmhouses, country pub
- farmlandfarms, farm, fields, field, barns
- garden plotsvegetable garden, vegetable patch, garden plot, raised bed, raised beds
allotmentwithholding
Keeping from another
retention · denial · refusal · deprivation · confiscation
- allotment gardensRented cultivation parcels
- land allotmentDesignated portion of terrain