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Meanings of allotments in English
Portuguese
schrebergarten Spanish
huerto familiar 
Plot of land sub-divided into smaller parcels for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing of food plants.
Synonyms
Examples for "allotment"
Examples for "allotment"
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It's been a great year for the raspberries on John McEvoy's allotment.
2
Their final holdings will depend on whether the over-allotment mechanism is used.
3
In 1776 three years was the usual allotment of the grand tour.
4
Privilege is the gift of affection; right, the stern allotment of law.
5
The over-allotment option is for an additional 15 percent of the volume.
1
The rest of the story deals with Ivy's days at the dacha.
2
Grossman returned to Moscow and in early June escaped to a dacha.
3
But there is less need for those protections back at the dacha.
4
Sets included Stalin's dacha, which had never before been opened for public viewing.
5
The last day of filming was Dec. 21, at the dacha.
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The field was cut up into allotment gardens.
2
Absurd system in this country-theland parcelled out in little allotment gardens of two or three hundred acres.
3
They require the service of a labourer now and then; they want fresh eggs, and vegetables from the allotment gardens.
4
And in Berlin, there was a struggle recently to protect the allotment gardens on the abandoned airfield of Tempelhof from developers.
5
To his right lay the allotment gardens just beginning to be alive with figures, and the voices of men and children.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest The former derelict site transformed into a community garden.
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Adjacent to the public library is a community garden where vegetables grow.
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She set up a community garden that rents vegetable plots to apartment dwellers.
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Linda Leigh runs a community garden project in Oracle, a few miles away.
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Beans tomatoes cabbages and strawberries grow in Glenview Schools community garden.
Usage of allotments in English
1
More recent figures are subject to change as over-allotments are taken up.
2
Look for the broken-down open gate to the right of the allotments.
3
These figures include areas such as parks, gardens, allotments and sports pitches.
4
The plans of Gracchus for planting colonies and distributing allotments were nullified.
5
Great gum-tree stumps were grievously prevalent, alike in Melbourne streets and allotments.
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Six people gave up their allotments in the weeks following Lea's murder.
7
The enclosures were now done by statutory commissions to ensure equitable allotments.
8
First he dueled with the commissioners over the size of the allotments.
9
And there were a couple of watertaps on the group of allotments.
10
Most land came to be privately held from community-witnessed allotments or inheritance.
11
From his store Ootah silently doled out allotments until starvation confronted him.
12
Land for allotments, at any rate, he had set his heart on.
13
The Dutch houses soon gave way to pleasant allotments and orchards.
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Unlike contract plans, prepaid plans do not have set usage allotments.
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Here in Hampstead allotments are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn.
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It's one of Dublin's last city allotments, dating from the first World War.
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Translations for allotments
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