Allotment may refer to:
- Allotment (gardening), 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 food
- Allotment (travel industry), a block of pre-negotiated carrier seats or hotel rooms held by a travel organizer till a certain period
- Allotment, see Dawes Act, a program of the U.S. Government, beginning in 1887, to break up Indian reservations and allot tribal land to individual Native Americans.
- Allotment, also known as sortition, a method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag
- The Allotment, a 1988 book by Colin Ward
- Allotment, a method by which a company allocates over-subscribed shares - see Subscription (finance)
Famous quotes containing the word allotment:
“Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly—
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads—
The allotment of death.”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)