lot

Topic: FILM

Language:	Old English
Origin:	hlot 'object used for making a choice by chance'

lot
2 noun

lot2

group of people/things

[countable] a group of people or things considered together:

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Could you help me carry this lot upstairs?

lot of

The last lot of people offered £70,000.

I did three lots of exams last summer.

Come on, you lot, hurry up!

His friends are a strange lot.

the lot

especially British English the whole of an amount or number of things, people etc:

We'll do everything - cooking, washing, ironing - the lot.

I can't believe you ate the whole lot.

I think that's the lot (=everything is included).

the lot of you/them/us (=all of you, them, or us)

Shut up, the lot of you!

somebody's situation

[singular] your lot is your work, duties, social position etc, especially when they could be better:

She seems happy enough with her lot.

The unions have always tried to improve the lot of their members.

land

[countable] especially American English an area of land used for building on or for another purpose:

the vacant lot (=empty land) behind the Commercial Hotel

a used-car lot

➔ parking lot

film

[countable]AMF a building and the land surrounding it where films are made [= studio]:

the Universal Studios lot

thing to be sold

[countable]BBT something, or a group of things, that is sold at an auction:

Lot 54 is a Victorian lamp.

choosing

by lot

if someone is chosen by lot, several people each take a piece of paper or an object from a container, and the person who is chosen is the one who gets a particular marked paper or object:

In Athens at that time, judges were chosen by lot.

draw/cast lots

to choose something or someone by lot:

We drew lots to decide who should go first.

throw in/cast your lot with somebody/something

to join or support someone or something, and accept that what happens to them will affect what happens to you:

In 1915 Italy threw in her lot with the allies.

➔ bad lot

at bad1 (21)

➔ a job lot

at job (17)

Definition of lot from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English within
the topic FILM