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'''Allotment''' may refer to:
* [[Allotment (gardening)]], in the [[United Kingdom]], 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 (financial)]], a method of distributing securities to investors when an issue has been oversubscribed.
* [[Sortition]], also known as allotment, is a method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag.
** In [[Athenian democracy]], allotment was the principle form of democratic choice with most magistrates and their large juries chosen this way; the Athenians considered allotment to be more democratic than elections.
* [[Dawes General Allotment Act]], a United States legislation of 1887 authorizing the President to survey Native American land and divide the arable area into allotments for the individual Native American.
* [[Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act]], United States legislation of 1935 allowing the government to pay farmers to reduce production
* ''The Allotment'', a 1988 book by [[Colin Ward]]
* A [[neighbourhood]] in a suburban area.
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