allocation

allocate | American Dictionary

allocate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈæl·əˌkeɪt/
to give something as a share of a total amount:
State funds will not be allocated to the program next year.

allocate | Business English

allocate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈæləkeɪt/us
to give a particular amount of time, money, etc. to someone or something, so that it can be used in a particular way:
allocate sth for sthWe have allocated €50,000 for printing and mailings.
allocate sth to sb/sthThey allocated 3% of the advertising budget to newspaper ads.
allocate capital/funds/moneyWe need to allocate capital and resources more effectively.
allocate timeSalespeople should allocate time for work in each area of their business.
to decide officially that something should be given to a particular person:
You will be allocated 4,566 shares at the par value of 20p each.
allocate sth among sbIt is his job to decide how the responsibilities should be allocated among the different salespersons within the sales force.
allocate sth to sbFederal agencies are required to set goals for allocating a certain percentage of jobs to small companies.
ACCOUNTING
to decide where to put a particular cost or amount in a company's accounts:
allocate sth to sthThe initial amounts received from customers or subscribers should be allocated to two liability accounts.

Examples of allocate

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The top half of the students was allocated to the key class and the poorer half to the ordinary one.
Patients can be randomly allocated to different treatment groups using tables of random numbers.
There are a number of obstacles, then, that can short-circuit the connection between democracy and the resources governments allocate to education.
Almost every explorer described his tasks in developing and allocating human and physical resources.
Thus, we undertook to examine the effect of various approaches to allocating cost when multiple diagnoses are listed for hospitalizations.
Resources allocated to reproduction will, therefore, be diminished.
In total, there were 8 different design conditions differing by page order and the pictures asked about, to which the sample was randomly allocated.
Decreasing returns to scale imply the existence of some other fixed factor of production, besides land, that must be allocated between crops.
The care of women allocated to the routine primary care group was left to the discretion of their primary care teams.
He was more attracted by the alternative idea that the president should have the sole power to allocate portfolios.
Since 1990, municipalities became teachers' employers and organisers of school activities, and became responsible for allocating resources to schools.
The store is not structured as a stack because storage can be allocated at any time during action performance.
The first rule avoids cluttering up the key with identifiers that account for only a small fraction of the total storage allocated.
This elementary categorisation has not been entirely straightforward, and a few of the papers might have been differently allocated by another classifier.
In this method, the kinematic errors are allocated to the joints such that the loop equations are exactly satisfied, simplifying the treatment of multi-loop mechanisms.
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