Allotment may refer to: *

Allotment (Dawes Act) The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. Named after Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, it authorized the P ...

, an area of land held by the US Government for the benefit of an individual Native American, under the Dawes Act of 1887 *

Allotment (finance) Subscription refers to the process of investors signing up and committing to invest in a financial instrument, before the actual closing of the purchase. The term comes from the Latin word ''subscribere''. Historical Praenumeration An early form ...

, a method by which a company allocates over-subscribed shares *

Allotment (gardening) An allotment (British English), is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening for growing food plants, so forming a kitchen garden away from the residence of the user. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of ...

, an area of land rented out for non-commercial gardening or farming *

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 co ...

, a block of pre-negotiated carrier seats or hotel rooms held by a travel organizer * Allotment of the Promised Land by Joshua; see Book of Joshua#Division of the land (chapters 13–22) *

Sortition In governance, sortition is the selection of public officer, officials or jurors at random, i.e. by Lottery (probability), lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample. In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and pr ...

or allotment, a method of selection by lottery * ''The Allotment'', a 1988 book by

Colin Ward Colin Ward (14 August 1924 – 11 February 2010)

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