allots

VERB

assign; give portion

Synonyms

STRONGEST

allocate appoint apportion appropriate assign designate distribute earmark set aside

STRONG

admeasure budget cut share slice

WEAK

cut the pie divvy dole mete shell out split up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

hold keep refuse reject

WEAK

disallow retain withhold

Example Sentences

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Acabo politely asks if I would like to hear the story of papillotes?

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2014

"Out of all the delicious things to eat at New Year, papillotes are my favourite," she says.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2014

Dominique Nahmias, who at 26 claims to be the youngest woman chef running a restaurant in France, the Olympe in Paris, prides herself on her salmon steaks cooked on a bed of sorrel en papillotes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ladies of fashion paid their hairdressers as much as �200 a year, and Statesman Gouverneur Morris had "two French valets and a man to buckle his hair in papillotes."

From Time Magazine Archive

Her double-gown was red and yellow; and her hair, wound up in little horn-shaped papillotes, imparted to her face quite a bristly and fierce expression.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various