unallocated
Americanadjective
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not allocated for any particular purpose or recipient.
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Computers. (of memory or drive space) not already occupied by data, and therefore free or available for saving new data.
Example Sentences
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Today, most frequencies above the 250 GHz mark remain unallocated.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
School systems are allowed to have an unallocated reserve of no more than 10%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Currently, around $78 billion committed to distressed investments globally are unallocated, according data provider Preqin.
From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2022
At present, missing and incomplete data means that about £500m is unallocated or misallocated globally every year.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2021
The others were sustained on stipends from donors such as the National Research Council and the Rockefeller Foundation, or were paid out of unallocated grants made to the Rad Lab by the same bodies.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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