different between allotment vs endowment
allotment
English
Etymology
From Old French alotement (modern French allotement).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??l?t.m?nt/
Noun
allotment (countable and uncountable, plural allotments)
- The act of allotting.
- 2007, Ruth Chambers, Kay Mohanna, David Wall, How to Succeed as a Leader
- You will achieve more in designated sessions of quiet uninterrupted periods than in a longer allotment of time broken up by various activities.
- 1873, Henry Sumner Maine, The early history of the property of married women
- The allotment of particular names to special ideas which gradually disengage themselves from a general idea is apparently determined by accident.
- 2007, Ruth Chambers, Kay Mohanna, David Wall, How to Succeed as a Leader
- Something allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed
- 1906, Thomas William Shore, Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race Chapter 9
- Similar customs prevailed in a part of Friesland, the most notable of which was the ‘Jus Theelacticum,’ or custom of the Theel lands, doles, or allottable lands in East Friesland, not far from the mouth of the Ems. There an inherited allotment was indivisible; on the death of the father it passed intact to the youngest son, and on his death without issue it fell into the possession of the whole community
- 1906, Thomas William Shore, Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race Chapter 9
- (law) The allowance of a specific amount of money or other credit of a particular thing to a particular person.
- 2013, Maxine Holsinger, The Life of Maxine Holsinger
- Maynard used to help before he got sick, but there was no income except what I brought in my allotment.
- 2013, Maxine Holsinger, The Life of Maxine Holsinger
- (Britain) A plot of land rented from the council for growing fruit and vegetables.
- 2015, Cathy Bramley, Ivy Lane
- The fallout of this unexpected turn of events was that it was Saturday morning, the first day of the Easter holidays, before the thought of my allotment even entered my head. Goodness only knew how big my carrots were going to be by the time I got round there!
- 2015, Cathy Bramley, Ivy Lane
Translations
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endowment
English
Etymology
From Middle English endowement; equivalent to endow +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ?n-dou?m?nt, ?n-, IPA(key): /?n?da?m?nt/, /?n?da?m?nt/
- (US) enPR: ?n-dou?m?nt, ?n-, IPA(key): /?n?da?m?nt/, /?n?da?m?nt/
Noun
endowment (plural endowments)
- Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
- 1791, Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791):
- I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments.
- 1958, Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the United Parents Association:
- We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
- 1985, Jonas Salk, Interview on The Open Mind (11 May 1985):
- What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment.
- 1791, Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791):
- Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
- 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland:
- Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.
- 1932, Robert Clarkson Clothier, after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- I seem to see a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.
- 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland:
- (insurance) Endowment assurance or pure endowment.
- (Mormonism) A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.
Synonyms
- (something with which a person or thing is endowed): gift
Derived terms
- endowment mortgage
Related terms
- endow
Translations
Middle English
Noun
endowment
- Alternative form of endowement
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