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Allotment may refer to:
  • Allotment (gardening)
    Allotment (gardening)
    An allotment garden, often called simply an allotment, is a plot of land made available for individual, non-professional gardening. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of land into a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individuals or families...

    , 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)
    Allotment (travel industry)
    Allotments in the tourism industry are used to designate a certain block of pre-negotiated carrier seats or hotel rooms which have been bought out and held by a travel organizer with a huge buying power like a wholesaler, tour operator or hotel consolidator, and more rarely by a retail travel...

    , a block of pre-negotiated carrier seats or hotel rooms held by a travel organizer till a certain period of time
  • Allotment, see Dawes Act
    Dawes Act
    The Dawes Act, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide the land into allotments for individual Indians. The Act was named for its sponsor, Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts. The Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again...

    , 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
    Sortition
    In politics, sortition is the selection of decision makers by lottery. The decision-makers are chosen as a random sample from a larger pool of candidates....

    , 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
    Colin Ward
    Colin Ward was a British anarchist writer. He has been called "one of the greatest anarchist thinkers of the past half century, and a pioneering social historian." -Life:...

  • Allotment, a method by which a company allocates over-subscribed shares - see Subscription (finance)