mindmap root((分配)) allot implies haphazard or arbitrary distribution with no suggestion of fairness or equality: each child was ~ed a portion of pie. assign stresses an authoritative and fixed allotment but carries no clear implication of an even division: each employee is ~ed a parking place. apportion implies a dividing according to some principle of equal or proportionate distribution: profits were ~ed according to a predetermined ratio. allocate suggests a fixed appropriation of money, property, territory, or powers to a person or group for a particular use: ~d $50.000 for park improvements