Allocate

Definition: Allocate

Allocate

Verb

1. Distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "allocate" was first used: 1640. (references)

Etymology: Allocate \Al"lo*cate\, transitive verb. [from Late Latin expression allocatus, past participle of allocare, from the Latin expression ad locare to place. See Allow.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Allocate

Apportionment

Allocate, ration, ration out; assign; separate.

Crosswords: Allocate

Books

• Benefit-Cost Analysis of Data Used to Allocate Funds (reference)

• Educational Management Tools for the Practicing School Administrators Who Wish to Plan, Organize, Allocate Resources, & Control Educational Programs (reference)

• Handling Construction Risks: Allocate Now or Litigate Later (reference)

• Local Justice : How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens (reference)

• Rivers of Gold: Designing Markets to Allocate Water in California (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

To allocate funding, a system of accreditation is used to identify efficient hospitals. (references)

One needs to allocate, therefore, a portion of the worldwide economic demand for launch vehicles to both regions and cities. (references)

In order to allocate frequencies (their supply being limited), the regulator has been holding auctions and competitive bidding. (references)

Children

Botswana

It also continued to allocate a large part of its investment expenditures to construct primary and secondary schools, so children have ready access to education. (references)

Botswana

The Government continued to allocate the largest portion of its operating expenditures to the Ministry of Education, and the second-largest portion to the Ministry of Local Government, Lands, and Housing, which administered primary education. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

However, in 2000 the Court ordered the Government to allocate resources equitably to cemeteries of the Jewish and Arab communities. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Local providers are expected to allocate large investments to meet this explosive growth in demand. (references)

Malaysia

If he or she is unable to do so, MITI will allocate any unclaimed local equity to other Malaysians. (references)

Malaysia

If the equity reserved for bumiputera is not taken up, MITI will allocate the balance to other Malaysians. (references)

Human Rights

Dominican Republic

The Supreme Court's plans to unclog the court dockets have been frustrated by the Government's failure to allocate sufficient funds. (references)

Niger

For example, in November a multilateral workshop reviewed systemic problems in the judiciary to determine how future donors can best allocate future aid resources as part of a planned overhaul of the judicial system. (references)

Minorities

Vietnam

Officials in Dak Lak Province reportedly are experimenting with a land policy that would allocate certain forest lands to ethnic minority villages for communal use. (references)

Political Economy

CHINA

Reform of the financial system will help allocate more efficiently China's huge pool of domestic savings and fund creation of pension, unemployment, and health care systems. (references)

Brazil

Due to jurisdictional and resource limitations, the efforts of the Federal Government to highlight human rights abuses and allocate federal resources to bolster the efforts of the states had limited impact in many of the states where human rights violations are most common. (references)

Political Rights

Bahrain

The councils will have full authority to allocate resources in their jurisdiction for local services. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

Coffee, sugar, banana, and beef producers' organizations also allocate export amounts among the producers up to the limit of various country quotas. (references)

Greece

Greek capital markets allocate credit on market terms, and while a sound business may have no problem with financing availability, interest rates range from 7.25 (prime rate) to 17 percent (credit card charges). (references)

China

In some cases, industrial conglomerates operating as monopolies or near monopolies (such as China Telecom) have been authorized to fix prices, allocate contracts, and in other ways restrict competition among domestic and foreign suppliers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "allocate": allocate by quotas. Additional references.

Ending with "allocate": re-allocate.

Albanian

shpërndaj (allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), ndaj sipas zërave, caktoj (allot, appoint, appropriate, arrange, assign, award, call, constitute, designate, detail, fix, instal, install, instate, intend, lay on, make, mete, name, nominate, order, put, qualify, set, tell off, zone). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قسم (administration, allot, apportion, authority, bisect, break up, deal out, department, distribute, district, divide, division, give out, halve, parcel, part, partition, portion, portion out, region, section, segment, separate, service, share, share out, split, subdivide, swear, take an oath), ‏وزع (allot, apportion, cast, circulation, deal, deal out, deliver, diffuse, disburse, dispense, distribute, divide, dole out, hand out, issue, ladle, parcel, part, portion, seed, serve out), ‏حدد (adjust, appoint, assess, assign, be specified, calibrate, center, centre, condition, constrict, define, determine, fix, itemize, limit, line, locate, mark, name, narrow, pin, pinpoint, prefix, prescribe, qualify, set, shoe, type), ‏عين (appoint, assign, assist, constitute, create, define, delimit, designate, eye, install, institute, make, name, ordain, peeper, poach, post, prefix, put, rescue, set smb. on smb., specify, state, succor, succour, supply, tap), ‏خصص (allow, appropriate, assign, consign, designate, destine, detail, devote, earmark, give, particularize, spare, specify). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпределям (admeasure, allot, apportion, assort, deal out, dispense, distribute, give out, map out, measure, parcel out, part, plot, serve out, share out, slice, sort), възлагам (allot, apportion, assign, commission, depute, detail, endue, entrust, indue, put on, rest, set), отпускам (allot, ease off, grant, issue, loosen, pay away, pay out, relax, release, slack, slacken, slouch, unbend, unbrace, unfasten, unleash, unrein, untuck, unwind), определям част. (various references)

Chinese 

�"�配 (dominate), 分配 (Assign, Assigned, Assigning, Portioned, Portioning). (various references)

Czech

urèit (appoint, assign, define, design, designate, destine, determine, earmark, fix, identify, intend for, lay down, ordain, reserve, settle, state, will), přidìlit (apportion, assign, cast). (various references)

Danish

at fordele processer (to allocate tasks), tildele en taletid (to allocate speaking time). (various references)

Dutch

taken toewijzen (to allocate tasks), taken toekennen (to allocate tasks), taken toebedelen (to allocate tasks), een spreektijd toewijzen (to allocate speaking time). (various references)

Farsi 

معین کردن (Allot, Define, Delineate, Designate, Govern, Limit, Settle, Specify), اختصاص دادن (Appropriate, Assign, Dedicate, Devote, Earmark, Reserve). (various references)

Finnish

jakaa tehtäviä (to allocate tasks). (various references)

French

attribuer (allot, allow, to allot), allouer (allow), affecter (allot), ventiler, répartir, distribuer. (various references)

German

zuteilen (allot, apportion, assign, deal, detail, distribute, portion, ration, ration out, to allot, to apportion), zugeteilt (assigned). (various references)

Greek 

κατανέμω (allot, apportion, ration, to allot). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליע�" (appoint, assign, destine, earmark, ordain, reserve), ליח�" (appropriate, assign, devote, set apart), לקצוץ (chop, cut, destroy), לקצוב (allot, apportion, cut, ration), ל�"קציב (allot, allow, apply, assign, funds, mete, portion, ration, set aside, set the pace), ל�"קצות (assign, chip, scrape). (various references)

Hungarian

kiutal (issue, to allocate, to allot, to apportion, to appropriate), kioszt (allot, deal out, dispense, give out, hand out, issue, to allocate, to allot, to assign, to deal out, to dispense, to distribute, to give out, to issue, to pass out, to portion out, to proportion, to section out, to share out, to zonk it to sy), juttat (apportion, impart, to allocate, to allot, to apportion, to commend, to furnish, to impart, to pauperize, to throw up), helyet megállapít (locate, to locate), helyet juttat, félretesz (cast aside, discard, lay aside, lay by, move away, pigeon-hole, put aside, put off, set apart, set aside, set by, to appropriate, to lay aside, to lay by, to lay sg by, to lay up, to pigeonhole, to put down, to put off, to put sg by, to put sg to one side, to reserve, to separate, to set by, to set sg by, to shelve, to throw off), átutal (to appropriate, to assign, to remit, to transfer, transfer). (various references)

Indonesian

alokir, mengalokasikan, mendermakan. (various references)

Italian

assegnare (adjudge, allot, allow, assign, award, distribute, endow, instruct, mean, post, reserve, set, to allot), stanziare (appropriate, establish oneself, station), distribuire (allot, apportion, cast, deal out, deliver, dispense, distribute, impart, release, share, spread). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

アレカ椰子 (alexandrite, allegory, allegretto, allegro, allergen, allergy, alloc, allocation, aloe, aloha, aloha shirt, anchor, Anchorage, anchorman, ankh, anklet, areca palm, arrange, arrangement, arranger, arrow, hour, underground, underground money). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

アロケート . (various references)

Korean 

� 당하십시�" (Allot, Assign). (various references)

Pig Latin

allocateay

Portuguese

aquinhoar, repartir (allot, apportion, deal, deal out, dishabille, dispense, distribute, divide, dole out, metempsychosis, part, portion, separate, share, slice, whack), partilhar (apportion, partition, portion, share), localizar (localise, localize, locate, position of influence, refer, situate, track), fixar (affix, append, appoint, assign, clench, cling to, define, determine, engraver, fasten, firmament, fix, get caught on, impair, joggle, Lodge, make fast, nail, pin, pitch, plant, put, record, rivet, root, secure, steady, tie), distribuir (allot, deliver, dispassionate, dispense, distribute, dole out, give over, hand out, parcel, portion, serve, share, spread). (various references)

Romanian

aloca (allot, allow, apportion, appropriate, assign, grant, portion), repartiza (allot, apportion, assign, deal, dispense, distribute, divide, pass out, share out), destina (allot, appropriate, assign, design, destine, doom into, intend, make, mean for). (various references)

Russian 

распределять (alloc, allot, aportion, apportion, categorize, deal, deal out, dispart, dispense, distribute, give out, mete, portion out, rank, route, share, spans). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

doznačiti, dodeliti (allot, assign, award, bestow, confer, endue, give, grant, vest). (various references)

Spanish

asignar (allot, allow, apportion, appropriate, assign, detail, earmark, instruct, mete, settle, to allot, upgrade), distribuir (dispense, distribute, give out, issue, pass out, pay out, share out). (various references)

Swedish

tilldela (administer, allot, assign, award, confer, impart, inflict, lot, mete). (various references)

Turkish

ayırmak (abstract, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), paylaştırmak (allot, apportion, distribute, mete out, portion out, serve out, sever, share out, split, split up), bölüştürmek (allot, apportion, divide, lot, mete, portion, portion out, serve out, share out, split, whack up). (various references)

Ukranian 

розміщувати (accommodate, dine, position, put), розподіляти (apportion, cast, deal, dispense, distribute, give away, ladle out, lot, mete, share), резервувати (reserve), закріпляти (anchor, back, belay, clamp, dog, harden, secure), асигнувати (appropriate, assign), локалізувати (localize, position), бронювати (protect), призначати (administer, administrate, affect, allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, attach, consign, constitute, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, number, order, put, tell off), приділяти (spare). (various references)

Welsh

rhannu (apportion, distribute, divide, share), dosbarthu (apportion, assort, class, classify, distribute), cyfleu (array, convey, place, set). (various references)

ad-. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "allocate": allocated, allocates. (additional references)

Words ending with "allocate": misallocate, reallocate. (additional references)

Words containing "allocate": misallocated, misallocates, reallocated, reallocates, unallocated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Allocate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alacatel, alchata, alcote, Alicata, alloca, allocade, allocare, allocuate, allocute, Allouatta. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: collate, lacteal.

-2 letters: acetal, callet, catalo, collet, locale, locate.

-3 letters: aceta, alate, allot, atoll, calla, cella, cello, cleat, coala, eclat, local, octal.

-4 letters: acta, alae, alec, aloe, alto, call, calo, cate, cell, celt, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, colt, cote, lace, late, leal, loca, lota, olea, olla, tace, taco, tael, tala, talc, tale, tall.

+1 letter: allocated, allocates, locatable.

+2 letters: collateral, lanceolate, reallocate.

+3 letters: acropetally, allocatable, anecdotally, collaborate, collaterals, collectanea, misallocate, reallocated, reallocates, relocatable, unallocated.

+4 letters: allelopathic, cancellation, collaborated, collaborates, collaterally, correlatable, extralogical, misallocated, misallocates, oblanceolate, octahedrally, operatically, reallocating, reallocation, sacerdotally.

+5 letters: affectionally, anecdotically, autecological, cancellations, categorically, collaborative, collaterality, collateralize, collenchymata, contralateral, correlational, declinational, educationally, hematological, megaloblastic, metabolically, nematological, nomenclatural, problematical, reallocations, recalculation, teratological.

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