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noun(lot)an unofficial association of people or groups
Examples:
They were an angry lot.
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noun(lot)anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
Synonyms: draw,
Examples:
They drew lots for it.
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noun(lot)(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad,
Examples:
A lot of money.
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noun(lot)your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
Examples:
Has a happy lot.
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verb(lot)administer or bestow, as in small portions
Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, mete out, parcel out, shell out,
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noun(lot)a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
Examples:
He bought a lot on the lake.
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verb(lot)divide into lots, as of land, for example
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noun(lot)(Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction