allotment
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Roughly half the annual visa allotment goes to foreign students already in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The century-old agreement requires the water released from Upper Basin dams for Arizona, Nevada and California to average at least 7.5 million acre-feet over any decade, plus an allotment for Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
McCarthy says their federal food allotment is down 35%.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2025
Customers cannot be reimbursed twice in one Federal Fiscal Year and the amount “cannot exceed the equivalent of two months’ worth of their monthly allotment per occurence,” Bonilla said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025
Her family’s distress increased in the late 1890s as the U.S. government intensified its push for the culmination of its assimilation campaign: allotment.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Vocabulary lists containing allotment
The Dawes Act
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