Meanings
nounallottee (plural allottees)
plural allottees
- The person to whom something is allotted.
The allotment of gardens, which yield a partial support to the allottee, are another means of cheap labour.
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, page 3351 more example
Sec[tion] 20 [of the General Inclosure Act] provides that trees &c, growing on allotments, shall belong to the allottees, they making compensation to the owners.
1829, Solomon Atkinson, A Practical Treatise of Conveyancing, volume 1, page 546
Origin
Translations
Hindi आवंटि
- आवंटि (āvaṇṭi)to whom something is allotted
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