ALLOTTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allotted mean? 

• ALLOTTED (adjective)
  The adjective ALLOTTED has 1 sense:

1. given as a task

  Familiarity information: ALLOTTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLOTTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given as a task

Context example:

her allotted chores

Similar:

assigned (appointed to a post or duty)

 Context examples 

A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As designed at first, no dwelling had been allotted to the lord of the castle and his family but the dark and dismal basement story of the keep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know not how she occupied herself before breakfast, but after that meal she divided her time into regular portions, and each hour had its allotted task.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In such meetings five minutes was the time allotted to each speaker; but when Martin's five minutes were up, he was in full stride, his attack upon their doctrines but half completed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At last man was to be supreme and the man-beast to find forever his allotted place.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some future traveller, visiting, from motives of curiosity, not unmingled, let us hope, with sympathy, the place of confinement allotted to debtors in this city, may, and I trust will, Ponder, as he traces on its wall, inscribed with a rusty nail,

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I thought of my family, my friends, my countrymen, or the human race in general, I considered them, as they really were, Yahoos in shape and disposition, perhaps a little more civilized, and qualified with the gift of speech; but making no other use of reason, than to improve and multiply those vices whereof their brethren in this country had only the share that nature allotted them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

By his wise precaution the seats had been allotted beforehand, so that the gentlemen might be scattered among the professionals and no risk run of two enemies finding themselves together, or a man who had been recently beaten falling into the company of his conqueror.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They returned within the time Hannah had allotted them: they entered by the kitchen door.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)