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UK
/lˈɒt/
]
[ US /ˈɫɑt, ˈɫɔt/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɑt, ˈɫɔt/ ]
NOUN
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an unofficial association of people or groups
they were an angry lot
the smart set goes there -
anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
the luck of the draw
they drew lots for it -
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market -
a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
he bought a lot on the lake -
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
has a happy lot
success that was her portion
deserved a better fate
the luck of the Irish
whatever my fortune may be
a victim of circumstances -
any collection in its entirety
she bought the whole caboodle
VERB
- divide into lots, as of land, for example
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administer or bestow, as in small portions
dole out some money
the machine dispenses soft drinks
administer critical remarks to everyone present
deal a blow to someone
shell out pocket money for the children
How To Use lot In A Sentence
- A lot of schools don't really encourage team sports .
- ‘In the absence of those assurances, we will have no choice but to ballot for industrial action,’ he said.
- We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
- Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
- A lot of the wrinklies, in fact, come along with holes in their shirts and jerseys.
- McGill University, however, has found a way to increase access to its rare books - thanks to a lot of grant money and one badass digital camera.
- It wasn't a bad program; with full profs as teachers, I read a lot and learned a lot.
- So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
- A third goal at that stage would have saved Rangers a lot of bother.
- A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
