allocated

[ al-uh-key-tid ]

/ ˈæl əˌkeɪ tɪd /

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adjective

set apart for a particular purpose or recipient; assigned or allotted: No committee participating in this event shall receive more than its allocated share of the funds raised.

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Origin of allocated

allocate + -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM allocated

un·al·lo·cat·ed, adjective

Words nearby allocated

alloantigen, allobarbital, allobaric, allocable, allocate, allocated, allocation, allocheiria, allocher, allochromasia, allochromatic

How to use allocated in a sentence

The company also did not immediately respond to a request to break out, in terms of percentages, how much of its media budget is allocated to experiential for this effort.
‘More dollars to experiential’: Why Walmart is still using experiential marketing to pitch Walmart+ — even during coronavirus crisis|Kristina Monllos|October 27, 2020|Digiday
They say it allocates more funding, and that you need to take care of places once you protect them.
How to Vote for the Environment This Year|Heather Hansman|October 27, 2020|Outside Online
The bill hasn’t made much progress, though states including Tennessee have allocated some of their state relief funding to rural broadband.
Land O’ Lakes CEO calls for big federal spending on rural broadband|dzanemorris|October 26, 2020|Fortune
In part one of my recent interview with Mike Blumenthal, local SEO expert and co-founder of customer experience management platform GatherUp, we spoke about the lack of resources Google allocates to addressing spam on Google Maps.
Video: Mike Blumenthal on review attribution in local search|Barry Schwartz|October 26, 2020|Search Engine Land

AI is likely to result in massive but poorly distributed financial gains, and this will both require and enable policymakers to rethink how they allocate resources and distribute wealth.
It’s time to rethink the legal treatment of robots|Emily Luong|October 22, 2020|MIT Technology Review
All the slots for arrivals and departures are allocated months in advance.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501|Clive Irving|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.
U.S. Embassies Have Always Been for Sale|William O’Connor|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Congress initially allocated $200,000 to finish the work, but then rescinded the appropriations before it was spent.
Weird Washington Monument History|William O’Connor|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The bill allocated billions of dollars for local jurisdictions to buy new machines.
Commission Wants to Make Voting More Like Disneyland and Less Like the DMV|Ben Jacobs|January 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Boustany noted with pride that the omnibus allocated $1 billion dollars to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.
House Passes Omnibus Budget|Ben Jacobs|January 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The transparent and unescapable meaning is death, but the alternatives allocated to the symbol are change and transformation.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence
It remains to give, also briefly, the divinatory significance allocated by the same art to the Trumps Major.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence
The figure has been said to stand for Truth, which is, however, more properly allocated to the seventeenth card.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence
Here the authority is Lvi, from whom is also derived the brief symbolism allocated to the twenty-two Keys.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence
Those from "del Norte" are considered Huchiun and those "del Este" are allocated to area 5.
The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California|S. F. Cook